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4 unusual facts about Steamship


John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

Oia, Greece

However, the arrival of steam and the concentration of shipping at Piraeus caused the town's seagoing trade to collapse, and agriculture also diminished as increasing emigration took place, especially to Piraeus and Laurium.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States

In response to the blockade various specially-built steamers were built and put to use by British investors who were heavily invested in the cotton and tobacco trade.

Thomasites

The name Thomasite was derived from the transport vessel USAT Thomas (earlier known as SS Minnewaska in private service), which brought the educators to the shores of Manila Bay.


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.

26 Baku Commissars

In route to Astrakhan (held by the Reds), the team of the steamship led by naval officers turned to the city of Petrovsk (Makhachkala) that was held by the White forces.

All-Red Route

Initially the term was used to apply only to steamship routes (as these were the only practical way of carrying communications between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire), particularly to India via the Suez Canal - a route sometimes referred to as the British Imperial Lifeline.

American Steamship Company

The American Steamship Company was founded in 1907 in Buffalo, New York by partners John J. Boland and Adam E. Cornelius.

Anchor Line

The Anchor Line (steamship company), a transatlantic steamship company founded in 1856 and acquired by Cunard Line in 1911.

Arunah Shepherdson Abell

Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia by ship from Europe, it traveled overland by pony to Annapolis, by steamship to Portland, Maine, and then by rail to Baltimore.

Charles Willcox

He was a director of several steamship companies which were taken over around 1915 by Adelaide Steamship Company, of which he was to remain a director until he died.

David E. Skinner II

He was the grandson of David E. Skinner (1867-1933) who owned the Skinner & Eddy shipyard, the Pacific Steamship Co., and the Port Blakely Mill.

Derby-Hall Bandstand

The R.R. Cuyler was a 1202 ton wooden steamship chartered by the Union Navy to enforce a blockade of Florida’s west coast.

Dupleix

a steamship built at La Ciotat in 1862, which between 1883 and 1888 operated between Sydney and Noumea, was sold, refurbished and subsequently operated between Australia and New Zealand.

Eastsound, Washington

Steamboats of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet used to dock at East Sound, one such vessel was the Sioux, a steel steamship built in 1910 and running out of Bellingham under the ownership of the Black Ball Line.

Eikeren

In 1903, the steamship Stadshauptmand Schwartz carried regular traffic and provided a link between the Kongsberg Railway (Kongsbergbanen) and the Tønsberg–Eidsfoss Line.

Falaba

The British R.M.S. Falaba, a West African steamship, was hit and sunk by a U-boat torpedo in 1915.

Henry D. Cooke

He was detained after the wreck at St. Thomas, where he conceived the idea of a steamship line from New York to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama, and wrote about his idea to the Philadelphia United States Gazette and the New York Courier and Enquirer.

Henry Eckford

PS Henry Eckford, American commercial steamship in service from 1824 to 1841, the first steamship to be powered by a compound engine

Henry Franklin Bronson

With William Goodhue Perley and James Skead, Bronson was also a promoter of the Upper Ottawa Steamship Company.

Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick

Cayzer was Chairman of the British & Commonwealth Steamship Company Ltd, of Clan Line Steamers Ltd and of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd and also sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth South from 1918 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1939.

HMAT Wandilla

SS Wandilla was a steamship built in 1912 for the Adelaide Steamship Company.

Horace Davis

Davis sailed for San Francisco, California, around Cape Horn in 1852, and upon arriving, engaged for a brief time as a gold miner, a lumber supercargo surveyor for a coastal steamer, and a purser for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Japanese submarine I-27

The sub's commander, Commander Fukumura, had a history of machine-gunning survivors of ships she had sunk, including the Liberty ship SS Sambridge and the Fort Mumford. The submarine torpedoed and sank the Allied steamship SS Khedive Ismail near the Maldives on February 12, 1944, killing 1,297 passengers and crew.

Japanese warship Kanrin Maru

The ship was built by the shipyard of Fop Smit at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands, where the virtually identical screw-steamship with schooner-rig Bali of the Dutch navy was also built in 1856.

John Boland

John J. Boland (1875–1956), co-founder of the American Steamship Company

José Eustasio Rivera

The casket then made its way down the Magdalena onto Bogotá on the mail steamship Carbonell González, arriving in Girardot and finishing by train to arrive in Bogotá on January 7, 1929 and was taken directly to the Capitolio Nacional where it was placed lying in state for public viewing.

Lady Elgin

PS Lady Elgin, a steamship named in honour of Mary Louisa Lambton

March Days

On March 27, 1918, fifty former Savage Division servicemen arrived in Baku on board of this steamship, to attend the funeral of their colleague Mamed Tagiyev, son of a famous Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Mjøsa

Today, aside from minor leisure boating and the steamship Skibladner, there is no water traffic on the lake.

MV Argyle

The first was a paddle steamer built only two years after the pioneer steamship PS Comet appeared on the river in 1812.

NASM

Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij - Netherlands-American Steamship Company, later Holland America Line

New York Port of Embarkation

Using seized docking facilities of German passenger and freight steamship lines on the Hudson River, the U.S. Army began moving troops and material to France to fight in the war.

Old Fitzgerald

Beginning in 1870, Old Fitzgerald was first produced for rail and steamship lines and private clubs primarily located in the south by John E. Fitzgerald in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Ole Thomesen

He was also involved when a Norwegian-owned (as opposed to British-owned) steamship company trafficking the lake Mjøsa was established in 1853.

Primorskaya Line

Second stage was opened on October 31, 1894; the railway left on coast of Gulf of Finland opposite to island Kotlin and was integrated with a steamship line.

Pyroscaphe

Pyroscaphe was an early experimental steamship built by Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans in 1783.

Raoul de Warren

His mother, Marie Seguin, was the granddaughter of Marc Seguin, a member of the Institut de France, builder of the first steamship in France, inventor of boilers, railroads and suspension bridges.

Saugatuck, Michigan

Douglas was home to the SS Keewatin, a coal-fired steamship formerly of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Sealink

Services to France, Belgium and the Netherlands were also run by Sealink UK as part of the Sealink consortium which also used ferries owned by French national railways, the SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority, Regie voor Maritiem Transport / Regie des transports maritimes (RMT/RTM) and the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (Zeeland Steamship Company).

SF Rjukanfoss

SF Rjukanfoss, prior to 1946 named Rjukanfos, was steam-powered railway ferry that operated between Mæl and Tinnoset on the lake Tinnsjø, Norway.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

SS Breda

The ship was built at the Nieuwe Waterweg Scheepsbouwmaatschappij ("New Waterway Shipbuilding Company") yard at Schiedam for the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij ("Royal Netherlands Steamship Company").

SS Irish Pine

SS Irish Pine was the name of a two steamship operated by Irish Shipping.

SS Mataafa

In 1901, she became a part of the original Pittsburgh Steamship Division of U.S. Steel when the division was formed.

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.

Treaty of Old Crossing

Most of the indemnity fund wound up in the hands of Norman Kittson, who had pioneered steamship operations on the Red River as a means of handling a burgeoning trade with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Tupolev TB-1

One Avia Arktika ANT-4, flown by Anatoly Liapidevsky played a key role in the rescue of the crew of the steamship Chelyuskin, which sank on 12 February 1934 after being trapped in ice near the Bering Strait, Liapidevsky being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

USAHS Acadia

Built in 1932 by Newport News Shipbuilding as a civilian passenger/cargo ocean liner for the Eastern Steamship Lines, the vessel was in US coastal and Caribbean service prior to its acquisition by the US Maritime Administration in 1941.


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