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SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra. Oriana first appeared as an Orient Line ship, with a corn-coloured hull, until 1966, when that company was fully absorbed into the P&O group.
PS Alexandra: 1863: Paddle steamer United Kingdom [8] HMS Scorpion: 1863: Turret ship Royal Navy [9] HMS Wivern: 1863: Turret ship Royal Navy [9] CSS Lark: 1864: Paddle steamer Confederate States Navy [10] HMS Agincourt: 1865: Ironclad Royal Navy [11] Huáscar: 1865: Turret ship Peru [12] HMS Euphrates: 1866: Troop ship Royal Navy [13] HNLMS ...
Steam drifter: For Daniel Ralph. [34] Unknown date United Kingdom: Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth: Rose: Steam drifter: For Alexander Storm. [35] Unknown date United Kingdom: Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd: Blyth: Ryhope: Cargo ship: For Furness Withy & Co. Ltd. [36] Unknown date United Kingdom: Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great ...
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
There are three principal methods of conveying a new ship from building site to water, only two of which are called "launching". The oldest, most familiar, and most widely used is the end-on launch, in which the vessel slides down an inclined slipway, usually stern first. With the side launch, the ship enters the water broadside.
At Crossness, the incoming liquid was raised some 30 to 40 feet (9–12 m) by the application of four large steam driven pumps. The engines were of enormous size and power. They were built by James Watt & Co. to Joseph Bazalgette's designs and specification, and were named "Victoria", "Prince Consort", "Albert Edward" and "Alexandra". [3]
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
GWR No. 1340 is an 0-4-0 ST steam locomotive, built in 1897 (Works No. 1386) by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England. Its first owners were Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. [1] In 1903 it was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway. This was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923.