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Pressure is a 2014 play written by David Haig, based on true events that took place during World War II.It centres on the true story of James Stagg and the weather forecasts that determined the date of the D-Day landings as part of Operation Overlord.
1910 Mathis launch, 15 horsepower universal engine, at Saranac Lake, New York A police launch operating on the Thames The steam launch Branksome, at the Windermere Jetty museum. Launch is a name given to several different types of boat. The wide range of usage of the name extends from utilitarian craft through to pleasure boats built to a very ...
HMS Alexandra was a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose seagoing career was from 1877 to 1900. She spent much of her career as a flagship, and took part in operations to deter the Russian Empire 's aggression against the Ottoman Empire in 1878 and the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
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SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra. Oriana first appeared as an Orient Line ship, with a corn-coloured hull, until 1966, when that company was fully absorbed into the P&O group.
PS Alexandra: 1863: Paddle steamer United Kingdom [8] HMS Scorpion: 1863: Turret ship Royal Navy [9] HMS Wivern: 1863: Turret ship Royal Navy [9] CSS Lark: 1864: Paddle steamer Confederate States Navy [10] HMS Agincourt: 1865: Ironclad Royal Navy [11] Huáscar: 1865: Turret ship Peru [12] HMS Euphrates: 1866: Troop ship Royal Navy [13] HNLMS ...
Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.
An Escher Wyss launch of 1888 Alfred Nobel's aluminium-hulled sloop Mignon. A naphtha launch, sometimes called a "vapor launch", was a small motor launch, powered by a naphtha engine. They were a particularly American design, brought into being by a local law that made it impractical to use a steam launch for private use.