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Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers

The 1970s British television series The Onedin Line (1971-80) is a complex and veiled take on the Allan Line Family and their Steamships.

Blakeley, Alabama

They left for New York City in 1820 to found Brown & Bell, a shipyard famous for its clipper ships and steamships.

Cargo liner

Alfred Holt pioneered the use of these engines in his steamships.

Daniel Butterfield

He graduated in 1849 from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society and was employed in various businesses in New York and the South, including the American Express Company, which had been co-founded by his father, John Warren Butterfield, an owner of the Overland Mail Company, stage-coaches, steamships, and telegraph lines.

Empress of China

RMS Empress of China, three Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners, one from 1891 to 1912, the other two briefly named Empress of China in 1921

Irish Shipping

Both of these vessels were steamships, with triple expansion reciprocating engines, converted to motor vessels in the mid fifties and powered by Doxford diesel engines.

Last Mountain Lake

Access to the area was opened up by the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company who also operated steamships on the lake.

Miami and Erie Canal

Some entrepreneurs even began to ship goods from Ohio down the Ohio River to New Orleans, yet it was difficult to bring new goods back up the river, even with the invention of steamships.

Pacific Coast Steamship Company

Its steamships regularly sailed from Seattle to SE Alaska before and after the Klondike Gold Rush.

Port McNicoll, Ontario

From 1912, Port McNicoll was home port of the CPR's passenger and package freight steamships, SS Keewatin and Flagship SS Assiniboia.

RMS Campania

According to martime historian Basil Greenhill, in his book Merchant Steamships, the interiors of Campania and Lucania represented Victorian opulence at its peak — an expression of a highly confident and prosperous age that would never be quite repeated on any other ship.

SS Beaverburn

Beaverburn was the name of two steamships operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway

SS Clan Mackenzie

Clan Mackenzie was the name of four steamships operated by Clan Line

SS Paris

A number of steamships have carried the name Paris, after the French capital city.

Tuckerton Railroad

Track is built past Tuckerton station to the waterfront at Edge Cove for connections to steamships taking vacationers to Long Beach Island (LBI) during summer months.


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