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  2. TSS Duke of Lancaster (1955) - Wikipedia

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    In order to maintain ferry services whilst these modifications took place, Duke of Lancaster's duties as a cruise ship ceased. [5] [6] On 25 April 1970 the ship returned to service, having had her main deck rebuilt to accommodate vehicles via a rear door at her stern. The ship now provided space for 1,200 single-class passengers and 105 cars ...

  3. RMS Duke of Lancaster (1927) - Wikipedia

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    In 1941 Duke of Lancaster as requisitioned as HM Hospital Ship No.56, with capacity for 408 patients and 60 medical staff, as well as 100 crew. In June 1944 she accompanied the troopships to the Normandy landings. [2] The ship was refitted after the war and fitted with, and used for testing, Marconi's first civil marine radar, the 'Radiolocator 1'.

  4. Duke of Lancaster (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Lancaster and Royal Saxon off Cape Town, Samuel Waters (artist), c. 1832. Duke of Lancaster, of 556 tons , was launched at Liverpool for Gladstone & Co. She traded with India under a licence from the British East India Company. She was last listed in 1844. SS Duke of Lancaster (1895) RMS Duke of Lancaster (1927) TSS Duke of Lancaster (1955)

  5. HMS Lancaster (F229) - Wikipedia

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    The ship is known as "The Queen's Frigate", [17] the Duke of Lancaster being a subsidiary title of the Sovereign. Being the third ship in the Type 23 class, Lancaster was originally allocated the pennant number F232 until it was noted that the 232 is the Royal Navy report form for groundings and collisions and therefore considered unlucky.

  6. TSS Duke of Rothesay - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Rothesay at Fishguard in August 1969. Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Lancaster and the TSS Duke of Argyll she was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for British Railways (at that time, also a ferry operator). [1] She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway, RMS Duke ...

  7. Digital scan of Titanic shipwreck reveals never-before-seen ...

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    For the first time, we can fully picture what the world's most famous shipwreck looks like at the bottom of the Atlantic.. Using deep-sea mapping, researchers were able to create the first full ...

  8. Details of iconic shipwreck revealed in never-before ... - AOL

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    But its three-masted timber sailing ship Endurance fell victim to the treacherous Weddell Sea, becoming ensnared in pack ice in January 1915. It was progressively crushed and sank 10 months later.

  9. SS The Ramsey - Wikipedia

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    SS or RMS The Ramsey was a passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from 1912 to 1914. She had been built in 1895 as Duke of Lancaster for the joint service to Belfast of the London and North Western Railway and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway companies. [1]