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8–23 April — Isambard Kingdom Brunel's paddle steamer SS Great Western (completed on 31 March) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Avonmouth in fifteen days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.
2,670 men drowned when they were transported to the mainland as PoWs on the SS Petrella, which was torpedoed by the HMS Sportsman.
SS Athen (1893), German merchant ship lost off Portland Bill in the English Channel in 1906, and now a dive site
A full-scale regular passenger service to New York commenced in 1892 and today the line is best known for its first class only direct London to New York passenger/cargo service operated by its four Minne class ships, SS Minneapolis, SS Minnehaha, SS Minnetonka and SS Minnewaska from 1900 to 1915.
Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.
Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904 at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the US Army.
During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.
Kristof has participated in multiple undersea expeditions with Canadian explorers Joseph MacInnis and Phil Nuytten, including the exploration of the Breadalbane, the world's northernmost known shipwreck, and the 1995 expedition to recover the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
On New Year's Day 1937, during the Great Depression, the gambling ship SS Monte Carlo, known for "drinks, dice, and dolls," was shipwrecked on the beach about a quarter mile south of the Hotel del Coronado, near San Diego.
SS Georgiana, Confederate cruiser wrecked March 19, 1863, while attempting to run the U.S. Navy's blockade at Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. Shennib has four children: Sarah Besan Shennib (born 1978), Faisal Shennib (born 1983), Selma Shennib (born 1988) and Lara Shennib (born 2007).
It was erected in memory of Captain William Lewis Herndon who courageously decided to go down with his ship, SS Central America, and the men left aboard rather than save himself on September 12, 1857.
In 1942 he was offered command of the SS Booker T. Washington, the first Liberty ship to be named after an African-American.
He finished his career with the rank of brigadier general, and died from Bright's disease on board the SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, while traveling from Bremen to New York City.
Tidmarsh had many more overseas assignments, including the revolt in Lebanon in June 1958 to overthrow Camille Chamoun, the two wars between India and Pakistan in 1962 and 1965, a three month assignment in Vietnam in 1965 and the USA, where he covered the whole of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King.
On 31 January 1858, the largest ship of that time, the SS Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched from Napier Yard, the shipyard leased by Messrs J Scott Russell & Co.
In 1849 he was elected to the legislature on the Whig ticket, and during his service there, he succeeded in securing the passing of a charter giving to the county a railroad running through its entire length, then known as Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and afterwards as the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.
The couple traveled to the United States, arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam on November 13, 1953.
He and fellow driver Earl Devore were lost at sea while sailing aboard the ocean liner SS Vestris.
:* The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, notable in civil rights history
Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from the USS Consolation (AH-15)).
Born in Selma, Alabama, Jordan was nicknamed "Shug" as a child because of his love for sorghum sugar cane.
She arrived in the Azores on Sunday, 9 March, and on the 15th her passengers and mail were transferred on to SS Elbe, which had been chartered for the task on the 10th.
Robert died aged 35 in 1941 after his ship, the SS Jonathan Holt, was torpedoed by U-97 a Type VIIC submarine in the North Atlantic.
SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918
SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.
On his return trip from Texas, he was offered the position of president of Masonic College in Selma, Alabama, which he accepted and held from January to October 1852.
Selma met her second husband, a Bosnian man named Mujo Musić in July 2011, during a performance of hers on a boat on the Modrac Lake in her birth city of Tuzla.
In 1916 the British liner SS Minnewaska, requisitioned by the British Army as a troops carrier, struck a mine and was beached at Souda Bay.
SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers', Jarrow, England.
In 1915, the SS Eastland capsized while docked in the Chicago River, with the loss of over 800 lives.
SS City of Los Angeles (1918), laid down under this name but became USS Victorious (ID-3514) for the United States Navy in World War I; sailed as SS City of Havre from 1931 to 1938; sailed as SS City of Los Angeles (1938) until 1940; became USS George F. Elliot (AP-13) for the United States Navy in World War II; bombed and sunk at Florida Island in 1942
SS Donau (Rostock, 1922) was a 2,575 ton cargo ship completed as the Osterndorf for the Vinnen Bros in June 1922, by Neptun AG in Rostock, Germany.
SS Matsonia (1932), originally named the Monterey, then renamed in 1957, before being sold and becoming the Lurline and then the Britanis for Chandris Lines, operating as a cruise ship for the until 2000, when she was sold for scrap and sank on her way to Indian ship breakers.
Originally they were to be only slightly larger than SS Leonardo da Vinci, which was still being built, but the jet aircraft had not had a notable effect on the Mediterranean area at the time and a pair of genuine superliners seemed like an attractive idea, not only from a commercial point of view but also from the point of view of providing jobs to sailors and shipyard workers.
SS Oria (1920) was a 2,127 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1920, by Osbourne Graham of North Hylton, United Kingdom.
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SS Oria (1890) was a 2,167 ton cargo ship launched on 20 March 1890, by Thompson, R., Southwick, England.
SS Selma (1871) was a 1,172 ton cargo ship launched as the Elf on 19 August 1871, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England.
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SS Selma (1921) was a 1,746 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany.
SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.
The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975.
Mrs. Dickson was one of the survivors of the SS Andrea Doria, the Italian passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic in 1956.
Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were his fellow passengers in the steamship SS Malabar, which sank in Galle harbor on 22 May 1860 after being beached in a severe storm; his report of the shipwreck was considered one of his best pieces of work.
See also: SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a Liberty ship, which served during World War II.
The 4230-gross-ton (GRT) passenger ship SS Mendi was ferrying the mostly-Pondo 5th Battalion, SA Native Labour Corps (SANLC) from Britain to France when the steamer collided with the 11,000 GRT liner SS Darro during the early hours of February 21, 1917.
For technical divers there are fewer wrecks that have attracted widespread popularity, although for years the SS Andrea Doria was regarded as the "Mount Everest" of wrecks to challenge the diver.
In 2001, he was recognized as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “Invisible Giants” in the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama.