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Later still in 1919, the British were the first to cross the North Atlantic in an airship with the R34, starting at RAF East Fortune in Scotland and landing in Mineola, New York. In 1922, Portuguese aviators Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic on a seaplane connecting Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro.
Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken in sailing ships, and the journeys were time-consuming and often perilous.The first trade route across the Atlantic was inaugurated by Spain a few decades after the European Discovery of the Americas, with the establishment of the West Indies fleets in 1566, a convoy system that regularly linked its territories in the Americas ...
Although not the first steamships to cross the Atlantic (Savannah had crossed in 1819, and Royal William in 1831) nor the fastest to make the crossing (the packet sailing ship Columbia crossed west to east in 15 days 23 hours in 1830, [10] and crossings by sail packets of 16 and 17 days were not unheard of) the Sirius and Great Western were the ...
This is a list of waterways that form the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, sometimes called the Intracoastal Canal, and crossings (bridges, tunnels and ferries) of it. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
Marseilles to North Africa Ms Marseilles to Naples: 1944 1945 MW Alexandria to Malta: NCF fast convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily: 1943 1943 NCS slow convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily: 1943 1943 NP Turkey to Port Said: NSF North Africa to Naples: troopships NV Naples to Augusta, Sicily: OM Oran to Marseilles: 1944 1944 PH Piraeus to heel ...
This is a list of bridges, ferries, and other crossings of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to the confluence of the East Branch and West Branch at Hancock, New York. There are no tunnels under the Delaware (excepting utilities), and no dams crossing the full width of its main stem.