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SS Lafayette was a 454-foot (138 m) long Great Lakes bulk carrier that broke in two in the Mataafa Storm of 1905 near Encampment Island, Two Harbors, Minnesota. [1] She was part of the "College Line" of ships; a group of five completely identical vessels named after the colleges attended by five of Pittsburgh Steamship's executives.
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality. In the modern environment, prefixes are cited inconsistently in civilian service, whereas ...
Name Built CGT service Type Length Beam GRT Fate Notes Image Abd el-Kader (): 1880: 1880-1922: Ocean liner: 312 ft. 33.6 ft. 1,579 GRT: Scrapped 1922: Administrateur en Chef Thomas
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
1. That part of the ocean lying more than a few hundred nautical mile s from shore, and thus beyond the outer boundary of green water. 2. More generally, the open ocean or deep sea. blue-water navy 1. A navy capable of sustained operations in the open ocean, beyond a few hundred nautical miles from shore. 2.
SS Mexique was a French transatlantic ocean liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She was launched in 1914 as Île de Cuba but when she was completed in 1915 she was renamed Lafayette. Lafayette was a hospital ship in the latter part of the First World War and a troop ship in 1919. In 1928 CGT had Lafayette refitted and ...
The primary barrier for the ocean liner came in the form of a “Captain of the Port Order” sent from the US Coast Guard to the ship’s Florida county owners in late November.
For older ships predating the modern pennant/hull number system, the most widely recognisable fact about the ship is its date of launch or construction. This is a unique identifier for a ship with a particular name in navies where names are customarily re-used and is applicable generally to all ships, unlike local naval identification numbers: