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USS Lenape (ID-2700) was a troop transport for the United States Navy in 1918, during World War I. She was launched in 1912 as SS Lenape, a passenger steamer for the Clyde Line. After the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917, she was chartered by the United States Army as transport USAT Lenape. After her Navy service ended in ...
She was completed in 1883 and made her first voyage on 23 June 1883 from Liverpool to Queenstown to New York. She was named Aurania and served from 1883 to 1905. [ 1 ] The ship was 143.3 metres (470 ft 2 in) long, with a beam of 17.4 metres (57 ft 1 in) and a depth of 11.3 metres (37 ft 1 in).
Sold to Atlantic Transport Line in 1889 under Mohawk serving trans-Atlantic routes. Served as transport in Boer War, was scrapped in 1903. Gaelic: 1885: 1885–1905: 4,206: Launched in 1885 by Harland & Wolff, serves White Star under Occidental and Oriental Steamship Co. charter, sold to Pacific SN Co., serves until 1907 under Callao, scrapped ...
Public transport in the region is provided using buses and ferries. Despite sharing a name, the systems in Dunedin and Queenstown are isolated from one another. The Otago Regional Council designs routes and schedules, and contracts operation of bus services to two bus companies, Go Bus Transport and Ritchies Transport. The majority of bus ...
Fourteen new steam ships were built for the purpose: Thames, Medway, Trent, and Isis (built at Northfleet); Severn and Avon (built at Bristol); Tweed, Clyde, Teviot, Dee, and Solway (built at Greenock); Tay (built at Dumbarton); Forth (built at Leith); and Medina, (built at Cowes). In reference to their destination, these ships were known as ...
RMS Scythia was a Cunard ocean liner.She sailed on her maiden voyage in 1921, and became a troop and supply ship during the Second World War. Scythia was the longest serving Cunard liner until 4 September 2005, when her record was surpassed by Queen Elizabeth 2.
The two men and car were recovered from the Clyde. One of the men is buried in Erskine, just outside the hospital grounds. [14] [15] A bus full of passengers also crashed through the barriers on 26 July 1946. The vehicle was pulled back on to the ferry and nobody was injured. [16] A man was rescued from the Clyde on 18 January 1953 by the ferry ...
Shortly after her maiden voyage on 31 May 1879, Arizona won the eastbound record for a Sandy Hook-Queenstown run of seven days, eight hours, 11 minutes (15.96 knots). [6] However, despite her greater power and coal consumption, she failed to take the westbound "Blue Riband" record from Germanic. [6]