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The SSE Hydro is a multi-purpose indoor arena located within the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland. The arena was initially named The Hydro after its main sponsor, energy company Scottish & Southern Energy subsidiary Scottish Hydro. The company then re-branded itself and its subsidiary companies as SSE, however theHydroname was retained despite it no long...
The was a British oil tanker sunk without casualties by a German air attack at Seyðisfjörður, Iceland on 10 February 1944.
Iceland, which remained neutral during World War II, had been occupied by Britain in May 1940 and, in April 1941, by the United States.
"El Grillo" is Spanish for "The Cricket".
The steam ship SSEl Grillowas built in 1922 at Armstrong...
was a 6,912-ton tanker of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil), which became the first casualty of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force action on California's Pacific Coast. It was one of four attacks on shipping, the others beingSamoa,Larry Doheny,andMontebello, all attacked off the coast of California before Christmas.Emidiowas sailing in ballast ...
Francisco Morazanwas a 1,442 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1922 asArcadiaby Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, for German owners. She was sold in 1924 and renamedElbing. She was seized by the Allies in the River Elbe, Germany in May 1945, passed to the United Kingdom's Ministry of War Transport and renamedEmpire Congress. In 1946, she was allocated to the Norwegian Governmen...
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or ...
After sustaining damage in 1886 the SS Great Britain lay in Sparrow Cove near Port Stanley until the 1970s when the ship was towed back to Bristol and restored.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (...
was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London, England. She was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refue...
Grecianwas a steel bulk freighter built in 1891 by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland, Ohio. She was a sister ship toNorman, also wrecked nearby. The ship was 296 feet (90 m) long, with a beam of 40 feet (12 m) and a gross register tonnage of 2,348 tons.
Grecianwas built to carry iron ore for the Chapin Iron Mining Company, and ran between the company's docks in Escanaba, ...
was a small freighter, originally built asFrank A. Augsburyfor the Canadian George Hall Coal & Shipping Corporation in 1922. She went on to sail for a variety of different owners, and was renamedGranbyin 1927,Parita IIin 1948,Valbrunain 1951,Lawrencecliffe Hallin 1952,Federal Explorerin 1955 and finallyIthakain 1960, before being wrecked on the Canadian coast late...
There have been at least two efforts to turn the Cortes Bank into an island nation. The most notable occurred in late 1966, when a team of entrepreneurs planned to turn the Cortes Bank into the constitutional monarchy of Abalonia. The general plan was to scuttle a WWII era concrete hulled freighter—probably the Tampa-built McClosky ship Richard Lewis Humphrey, w...
SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818). Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivora of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944.
Jeremiah O'Brien and the SS John W. Brownare the only currently operational Liberty ships of the 2,71...
is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years. Now preserved, she is a museum ship and cruise ship berthed at Clinton Street Pier 1...
The Kakapo was on its maiden voyage without cargo from Southampton to New Zealand when it ran aground on the night of the 25 May 1900 off Noordhoek beach.
In poor visibility during a north-west winter storm, the captain mistook Chapman’s Peak for Cape Point and turned in-shore at full-speed and ran the ship up onto the beach. The crew did not have to lower the ...
The SS Kennedywas built in 1864 for the Australian Steam Navigation Co. to ply the Queensland rivers, the company had a change of heart when she ran on to a reef not long after being put into service. This worked out well for Nathaniel Edwards and Co. of Nelson, who were able to purchase her in 1865 as a second ship for their run from Nelson to Hokitika which was boom...
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