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6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War. [1]
Clergy. Archpriest. Alex Cordina. Main altar. Relic of St. Paul. Part of the column on which the saint was beheaded in Rome. The Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, also known as simply the Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Valletta, Malta. It is one of Valletta's oldest churches.
Ħamrun (Immaculate Conception) (1968) The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows ( Maltese: Knisja tal-Madonna tad-Duluri) is a Roman Catholic church in Pietà, Malta. It was established in the late 16th or early 17th century near a cemetery in which victims of the 1592–1593 Malta plague epidemic were buried. It was originally dedicated to Saint Roch ...
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul (Maltese: Il-Katidral Metropolitan ta' San Pawl), commonly known as St Paul's Cathedral or the Mdina Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in Mdina, Malta, dedicated to St. Paul the Apostle. The cathedral was founded in the 12th century, and according to tradition it stands on the site where Roman governor ...
U. Um El Faroud. Categories: Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. Shipwrecks by country. Shipwrecks of Europe. Maritime incidents in Malta. Ships of Malta.
Richard Ellis (27 January 1842 – 23 December 1924) was a British-Maltese photographer who was one of the pioneers of photography in Malta during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in St. Luke's, East London, he travelled throughout Europe as a circus performer [1] before settling down in Malta at the age of nineteen.
Politics and suffrage. Activism in favor of Women's suffrage was conducted by Mabel Strickland and later by the Women of Malta Association until the reform was finally introduced in 1947. Fifteen general elections have been contested since the granting of universal suffrage in Malta in 1947. Only 73 women have contested in these elections.
A view towards the Mediterranean from Malta. In September 2014, it was announced by the International Organization for Migration that a ship sank off the Malta coast on September 11, 2014, killing around 500 migrants. [1][2] There were eleven survivors. [3][4] The ship left Damietta, Egypt, on September 6 and sank five days later on September 11.