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unusual facts about SS ''Westfalen''



1838 in the United Kingdom

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.

51st Infantry Division Siena

2,670 men drowned when they were transported to the mainland as PoWs on the SS Petrella, which was torpedoed by the HMS Sportsman.

Athen

SS Athen (1893), German merchant ship lost off Portland Bill in the English Channel in 1906, and now a dive site

Atlantic Transport Line

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.

Emory Kristof

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.

Gambling ship

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.

Geldern-Kapellen

The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Georgiana, Alabama

SS Georgiana, Confederate cruiser wrecked March 19, 1863, while attempting to run the U.S. Navy's blockade at Charleston, South Carolina

Gotthart A. Eichhorn

His father, a Baltic German refugee from Estonia, was an architect and university lecturer, who moved after being released from a prisoner of war camp with his family to Hagen (Westfalen).

Hagen–Hamm railway

The Hagen–Hamm railway is a continuous two-track, electrified main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting Hagen via Schwerte, Holzwickede and Unna to Hamm.

Herndon Monument

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.

Hugh Mulzac

In 1942 he was offered command of the SS Booker T. Washington, the first Liberty ship to be named after an African-American.

John B. Babcock

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.

Kernmünsterland

Kernmünsterland includes the city of Münster (less the northeast part) to the north, the district of Coesfeld (less the extreme west with Coesfeld and Billerbeck) to the west, the district of Warendorf (less the north with Sassenberg, Warendorf-Nord, Telgte and Ostbevern) to the east the centre of the historic Münsterland.

Laurenz Meyer

He was then employed at Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen, or VEW AG (which was later taken over by the RWE group) in Dortmund.

MediaPark

Among the corporate firms at MediaPark are EMI Music Germany, Radio Köln and Westdeutscher Rundfunk studios of 1LIVE; among the cultural institutions are a large multiplex cinema (Cinedom), the Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, the musikFabrik and SK Stiftung Köln with the Akademie för uns Kölsche Sproch (Academy for our Kölsch language).

Millwall

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.

Nora Kovach

The couple traveled to the United States, arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam on November 13, 1953.

Norman Batten

He and fellow driver Earl Devore were lost at sea while sailing aboard the ocean liner SS Vestris.

Olmert

Karl Ollmert (born 1874, Herten in Westfalen - 1965, Frankfurt am Main), a German politician (de)

Paul Nieder-Westermann

On 1 April Nieder-Westermann was appointed to the leader from the upper relay Westfalen (South) of the NSKK.

Project HOPE

Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from the USS Consolation (AH-15)).

RMS Etruria

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 Byron

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.

Royal Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

In the end they agreed upon the present-day route from von Löhne via Osnabrück to Prussian Rheine, that at the same time provided a junction at Münster to the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and from there a link via Salzbergen to Leer and Emden.

Royal William

SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.

SC Herford

They returned to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) for a couple of seasons at the turn of the millennium, but fell back to Verbandsliga, and in 2005 descended to play in the Landesliga Westfalen Ost (VI).

Souda Bay

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

SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers', Jarrow, England.

SS Christopher Columbus

In 1915, the SS Eastland capsized while docked in the Chicago River, with the loss of over 800 lives.

SS City of Los Angeles

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

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

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.

SS Michelangelo

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

SS Oria (1920) was a 2,127 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1920, by Osbourne Graham of North Hylton, United Kingdom.

SS Oria (1890) was a 2,167 ton cargo ship launched on 20 March 1890, by Thompson, R., Southwick, England.

SS Selma

SS Selma (1871) was a 1,172 ton cargo ship launched as the Elf on 19 August 1871, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England.

SS Selma (1921) was a 1,746 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.

Summertime Dream

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.

Temple Dickson

Mrs. Dickson was one of the survivors of the SS Andrea Doria, the Italian passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic in 1956.

Thomas William Bowlby

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.

USS O'Brien

See also: SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a Liberty ship, which served during World War II.

Valour-class frigate

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.

Vogelsang Airfield

Vogelsang Airfield (Fliegerhorst Vogelsang) is an abandoned World War II military airfield located approximately 3 miles northwest of Schleiden (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately 330 miles southwest of Berlin.

Wreck diving

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.


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