Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
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
The ocean liners Orcades. SS Orduña: 1913 Scrapped in 1951 – Scotland S.S. Orduña in New York. SS Oregon: 1883 Collided with an unidentified schooner, and sank in 1886 off Long Island, New York S.S. Oregon: SS Oriana: 1959 Scrapped in 2005 S.S. Oriana in Vava'u, Tonga, circa 1985: RMS Orion: 1934 Scrapped in 1963 R.M.S. Orion: SS Oronsay: 1924
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 ...
SS La Provence was the first ship of the company to be equipped with wireless telegraphy (six years after SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the first liner to be equipped with this technology). This technology was, at the time, seen as a gadget intended for wealthy passengers, and not as a security tool.
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.
A heavily modified or repurposed ship may receive a new symbol, and either retain the hull number or receive a new one. Also, the system of symbols has changed a number of times since it was introduced in 1907, so ships' symbols sometimes change without anything being done to the physical ship.