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Five days later a ship spotted the ‘Cleopatra’ floating undamaged off the northern coast of Spain, and she was towed to the Ferrol, Galicia. There a steam-ship, the Anglia, arrived to tow her to London. They arrived at Gravesend on 21 January 1878. [1] Cleopatra was broken up immediately after the obelisk had been removed on 6 July 1878 ...
SS United States : The story of America's greatest ocean liner. New York, Nwe York: W.W. Norton. Driscoll, Lawrence. (2003) S.S. America U.S.S. West Point S.S. Australis The Many Lives of a Great Ship. Palo Alto, California: The Glencannon Press "S. S. America — An All American Liner" Article on construction with photos.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The blame was placed on a rushed construction, and the crew struggled to keep the ship operational. The passengers protested to the company about the poor condition of the ship, but also reported "the splendid conduct of the officers and crew." The Cleopatra returned to London, limited to half-speed the crossing took 21 days. Once she had ...
HMS Cleopatra was a 26-gun Vestal-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 28 April 1835. She was to have been launched in July 1834 and fitted thereafter. [ 1 ]
Cleopatra Memorial, St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai Cleopatra was a Victorian-era wooden paddle steam frigate [4] of the East India Company. [4] Constructed at Northfleet, the ship arrived at Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 April 1840, [5] and operated as a transport and mail steamer between Bombay to Karachi, Aden and Suez.
Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Cléopâtre in honour of Cleopatra, pharaoh of Egypt: Cléopâtre (1781), a 32-gun Vénus-class frigate; Cléopâtre (1817), a 40-gun Armide-class frigate; Cléopâtre (1838), a 52-gun Artémise-class frigate
Cleopatra flew a barque or ship rig of sail on three masts, including studding sails on fore and mainmasts. [9] Between its two complete decks was the open quarterdeck, on which the battery was located. Under the lower deck were spaces for water, provisions, coal, and magazines for shell and powder. Amidships were the engine and boiler rooms.