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Full-rigged ship: For John Hay. [8] [92] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. Samuelson & Co. Hull: Ernestine: Steamship: For private owner. [93] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. John Scott Russell & Co. Millwall: Etna: Aetna-class ironclad floating battery: For Royal Navy. Caught fire and self-launched, damaged beyond repair. [94] 3 May France: Lorient ...
In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... List of ship launches in 1855; A. French ship Algésiras (1855) Alhambra (1855)
She was launched on September 4, 1855. [1] Her sister ship Arago was built by Westervelt & Sons. They were both constructed in 1855 for the New York & Havre Steam Navigation Company, then under contract with the United States Government to deliver mail between New York and Le Havre, France. [2] Both were named for steamship pioneers.
The Alhambra took its maiden voyage to Marseilles on 7 July 1855. It entered service in Gibraltar on 18 August 1856, and in May the following year was reported as loading in London for Portland Bay. [1] On 18 August 1857, Alhambra sailed for Mauritius from the Port of Geelong. [2] In July, the ship experienced machinery failure off Portuguese ...
HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks, and launched as a wooden steam battleship.
Indian Space Research Organisation, India's national space agency, maintains an active space program. It operates a small commercial launch service and launched a successful uncrewed lunar mission dubbed Chandrayaan-1 in October 2007. India successfully launched an interplanetary mission, Mars Orbiter Mission, in 2013 which reached Mars in ...
La Hogue was a wooden full-rigged ship built by James Laing, Sunderland and launched in 1855 for Duncan Dunbar. She was used in the passenger and cargo trade to Australia and New Zealand. [ 1 ] Her figurehead was a lion rampant supporting a shield with the St Andrew's Cross.
First communication between two crewed space vehicles in orbit. First person to float freely in microgravity. USSR Vostok 3 and Vostok 4: 18 August 1962 First auroral research rocket launched into the ionosphere. Norway: Ferdinand 1: November 1962: First Mars flyby (11,000 km) but contact was lost. USSR Mars 1: 14 December 1962