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Pages in category "Ships built in Leith" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. [4] In the late 1820s, Forth , master, sailed between Great Britain and Mauritius . On her first convict voyage , under the command of J. Robertson and surgeon J. Cook, she sailed from Cork , Ireland on 3 June 1830, and arrived at Port Jackson on 12 ...
Morton was born in Leith in October 1781 and grew up to become a shipwright like his father, Hugh. After spending some time working for his father, Morton went on to form his own shipbuilding company in the borough which later became S. & H. Morton & Co. [1]
Skeen left Leith on 4 June with the settlers, together with stores and merchandise. [7] By the time Skene arrived at Black River, Honduras, on 29 July 1823 the survivors from the two previous ships had already been rescued and taken to Belize. Skene sailed to Belize and left her passengers there. Some stayed on, but the widows and orphans were ...
From 1931 onwards it became a ship repair yard having been purchased by the South Georgia Co. of Leith, a sub-company of Christian Salvesen. Husvik: 1907 to 1961: Situated in Stromness Bay, Husvik was designed to operate a moored floating factory ship with a shore station built in 1910. Tonsberg Hvalfangeri operated the station until it was ...
Ships built in Leith (60 P) Pages in category "History of Leith" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... 1914 Leith Burghs by-election; A.
In July 1779 it was reported in the Adam's Weekly Courant newspaper of Chester that the Fury had impressed the entire crew of a whaling ship in Whitby Roads and on 31st of that month the St. James Chronicle reported that she left Leith Roads with the tenders Africa and Swan carrying 300 impressed men, the majority of whom were for the new 74 ...
Three Bird-class corvettes were built for the Royal New Zealand Navy. Ordered in 1939, two of these ships famously sank the Japanese submarine I-1 in January 1943, [4] while the third ship helped sink Japanese submarine I-17 seven months later. [5] On 26 February 1940 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the shipyard. [6]