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ST Poseidon was 1973–1976 the name of a steam tugboat built in 1941 for the British Government and originally named Empire Fir. HMS Poseidon was a Royal Navy Parthian-class submarine, launched in 1929 and sunk in 1931. USS Poseidon (ARL-12) was a United States Navy Achelous-class repair ship, built in 1944 and sold off in 1961.
In 1968, Goldfield was sold to Compagnia de Navigazione Sulemar, Panama and renamed Poseidon. She was operated under the management of V Coccoli, Italy. [ 2 ] In September 1969, Poseidon ran aground while on a voyage from Rouen , France to Alexandria , Egypt.
SS Poseidon – ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary), The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, 1969 Pristis – racing ship captained by Mnestheus in the Aeneid by Virgil , 1st century BCE USS Pyramus – Polaris missile -carrying SSBN , The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman , 1967
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name.It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons.
USS Poseidon (ARL-12) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Poseidon (the Greek god of the sea), she was the only ship U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. Her keel was laid down as LST-1037 by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 July 1944.
The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969.It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the SS Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.
The plot centers on the SS Poseidon, a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney as well as the stories and dramas of some of the 3,700 passengers and crew. Beforehand, a terrorist operation plans to sink the ship. Four terrorists take two bombs aboard to sink the ship.
HMS Poseidon (P99) was a Parthian-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness, England for the Royal Navy, launched on 22 August 1929. She spent most of her short career assigned to the Yellow Sea region, based at the Royal Navy's Weihai naval base in mainland China .