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The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis, Tennessee, on June 13, 1858. Construction and career
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania class of super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The Pennsylvanias were part of the standard-type battleship series, and marked an incremental improvement over the preceding Nevada class, carrying an extra pair of 14-inch (356 mm) guns for a total of twelve guns.
The Naval Aircraft Factory was established at the League Island site in 1917. Just after of the end World War I, a 350-ton capacity hammerhead crane was ordered for the yard. Manufactured in 1919 by the McMyler-Interstate Company in Bedford, Ohio, the crane was called the League Island Crane by its builder. Weighing 3,500 tons, the crane was ...
Pages in category "Ferries of Pennsylvania" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fredericktown Ferry; I. USS Inca (1911) L. USS League Island (YFB-20) M ...
Ship Island Ferry; Shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm; Shocks Mills Bridge; ... South Ferry (ferry) South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
Also known as USS Colebrook; a Hog Islander merchant ship that grounded off Middleton Island. [5] Destination: 11 February 2017 A 98-foot (30 m) crabbing vessel that sank in 250 ft (76 m) of water amid icy conditions just northwest of St. George Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea. The captain and five crew members were lost with the boat. [6]
The ferry service started carrying railcars on 10 October 1921. On 9 April 1988, the Great Seto Bridge was opened and the last train ferry operated on the previous day. Kammon Ferry; The Kammon ferry connected Shimonoseki Station and Mojikō Station crossing the Kanmon Strait connecting Honshū and Kyūshū. This was the first train ferry ...
As early as July 1764 [1] a ferry began operating from Paulus Hook to the foot of Courtland Street (where Cortland Street Ferry Depot would be built). [2] The first steam ferry service in the world began between Paulus Hook and Manhattan in 1812, [3] and the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company opened a rail line from Newark to Paulus Hook, then part of the newly incorporated City ...