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During the Colombia-Peru War, Liberal was commanded by lieutenant commander Manuel R. Nieto and lieutenant José Mosto, they were given orders to travel towards Leticia with the steamship. These two officers organized defenses which consisted of mines and torpedoes, their goal was to hinder the progression of enemy reinforcements by river.
Infamous among these are Lady Elgin which sank in 1861 with 300 lives lost, Eastland, which capsized in the Chicago River in 1915 with the loss of 844 lives, and Noronic, which burned at the wharf in Toronto, Ontario in September 1949 with the loss of 119 lives. While the ship had been known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" it is now also a ...
Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.
She sailed from 1900, to 1962 when she was sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio where she was buried under 39 feet of dredgings from the Cuyahoga River. SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan , for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City ...
Columbian Whaleback Steamship Company (1893–1906) Milwaukee & Chicago Transportation Co. (1906–1909) Goodrich Transit Co. (1909–1933) William F. Price (1933–1934) Chriscarala Corp. (1934–1936) Builder: American Steel Barge Company: Yard number: 00128: Laid down: September 13, 1892: Launched: December 3, 1892: Christened: May 13, 1893 ...
1900–1909 1887–1900 Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway: CI&L 1885–1897 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad – 1969–1971 1892–1969 1883–1892 Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad: PCC&StL 1883–1890 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: N&W 1883–1892, 1898–1964 1882–1883, 1892–1898: Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway ...
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Yavari is a British-built iron steamship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yapura) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca by the Peruvian Navy.. She is named after the Javary River in the Loreto Region of Peru, bordering the Amazonas State (), and was the first steamship to cross the highest navigable waters in the world.