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  • ...n for wealthy American, Canadian and British tourists arriving by frequent steamship service. In addition tariffs enacted by the United States in 1930 cut Bermu
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  • ...tp://www.maidoftheloch.com/| title=Maid of the Loch| publisher=Loch Lomond Steamship Company| accessdate=25 September 2008}}</ref>
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  • ...irbairn (1789–1874) was another engineer who built the first iron hulled steamship the ''Lord Dundas'' and built over 1,000 bridges using the tubular steel me
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  • ...bc28jun08">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7479338.stm 'Oldest' steamship gets £2m refit], BBC news website, 2008-06-28. Retrieved 2011-04-21.</ref>
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  • There is one identified shipwreck, a steamship ''The Pioneer'', which ran ashore in 1878 with a cargo of iron bars when th
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  • ...ced hundreds of steam freighters including the infamous SS Mont-Blanc, the steamship which caused the 1917 Halifax Explosion in Canada.
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  • *By sea with the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company (passenger and cargo) from [[Penzance]] to St Mary's.
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  • ...Foula, becoming a wreck within two weeks. Holbourn's remarkable luck with steamship travel held through the following May, when he embarked upon the RMS ''Lusi
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  • ...vely wealthy merchant by the name of MacIver, whose shop received goods by steamship from Glasgow and distributed them not only to other 'Scorreachean' (natives
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  • ...urposes.<ref>Cooper (1979) Pages 142–143.</ref> On 20 September 1862 the steamship ''Irishman'' ran aground on "Skernataid Rock" between Raasay and [[Scalpay,
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  • On 28 June 1904 the Norwegian steamship SS ''Norge'', carrying 727 passengers and 68 staff members, on its way to N
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  • ...shore on Flat Holm but was refloated,<ref name="sanders"/> and in 1941 the steamship ''Middlesex'' was lost.<ref>{{pastscape|1002997|Middlesex}}</ref> In July 1883, the steamship ''Rishanglys'' left three seamen on the island who were believed to be suff
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  • ...eal & Co produced wrought iron plates for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous steamship the SS ''Great Eastern''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlantic-cable.com/
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  • ...and 21 passengers were rescued the following morning. On 8 April 1894 the steamship ''Udea'' was lost on the same rocks with a cargo of coal and iron. Owned by
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  • ...to the level of the entrance floor 58 feet above high water mark. A small steamship, the ''Ierne'', was specially constructed for carrying the blocks out to th
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  • In 1947 the 7,130 ton steamship the SS ''Port Royal Park'' collided with the pier causing severe damage tha
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  • The steamship ''SS Pelican'' grounded in Minehead Bay on 22 June 1928, on an unmarked ree
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  • * SS ''Abessinia'', a 453-foot German steamship that drove onto Knifestone, Outer Farnes, on 3 September 1921. * ''Brittania'', a 740-ton, 210-foot British cargo/passenger steamship that struck the Callers, Outer Farnes, in thick fog on 25 September 1915.
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  • ...looking forward over that great sheet of water at the distant smoke of the steamship. Dick, busy with the binoculars, was looking at the birds on the mudflats,
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  • ...ecting it with the wharf and the main line. The Aberdovey & [[Waterford]] Steamship Company imported livestock from [[Ireland]] which were then taken further b
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  • ...gs, steamboats, lighters, "flats", everything from the huge emigrant liner steamship with four masts to the tiny sailing and rowing boat … At New Brighton the
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  • On [[Loch Katrine]], visitors can travel on the historic steamship SS ''Sir Walter Scott'', while cruises on Loch Lomond can be taken from Tar
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  • ...tkins for rescuing 28 people on the 26 November 1929 from the single-screw steamship ''Molesley'' which had been caught by a sudden wind change and a poor decis
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  • ...Henry Bell, whose ''Comet'' was the world's first commercially successful steamship. In 1851 the marine engineer Robert Napier built the statue which today mar
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  • ...orm, were wrecked upon these rocks. One of these was classified as an iron steamship, with a cargo of wheat. The date of loss was cited as 2 December 1894.
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  • ...o, and the ship is upside down on the sea bed. The wreck of the steel-clad steamship is now a popular dive site.<ref name=bsac>{{cite web|title=Southern Europe In 1916, the SS ''Rosslyn'', a steamship of more than 3,600 tons out of [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], having discha
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  • Over 500 crew and passengers (mostly naval personnel) were lost when the steamship RMS ''Leinster'' was torpedoed and sunk by German U-Boat UB-123 on 10 Octob
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  • In 1914 the Cunard Steamship Company commissioned the construction of new headquarters for the company. ...ar Line to form Cunard White Star Line, which became the largest passenger steamship company in the world, helping to make Liverpool one of the most important c
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  • The canal was privately built with the support of steamship owners Mr David Napier and Mr John McMurrick<ref>[http://www.arrocharherita * ''Many a Slip... The Balloch Steam Slipway''. Pub. by The Loch Lomond Steamship Company.
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  • ...n in honour of the ship the SS ''Telefon'', a Tyne-built a Norwegian cargo steamship which was damaged amongst the islands in 1908 and lay here awaiting repairs
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  • ...n 1899 he resided at Park Road, Penarth, Glamorgan. On 6 February 1899 a steamship he half-owned named "Ramsey", registered at Cardiff, was stranded and lost
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  • In January 1897, with the pier almost completed, a major steamship company operating in the area announced that they would be sailing to Woody
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  • ...the first steam ship to sail from Ireland to England (1821) and the first steamship to cross the Atlantic (''Sirius'' 1838), which sailed from Passage West.
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  • ...at Captain Roberts set out and crossed the Atlantic in the first passenger steamship, "The Sirius".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/sea
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  • ...n 1815 this yard was involved in launching the ''City of Cork'', the first steamship built in Ireland. The other and bigger dockyard was the Royal Victoria Dock The first steamship to cross the Atlantic to America was under the command of Lt. Richard Rober
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