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For Liverpool Tug Company. [114] 20 May France: M. Normand Havre de Grâce: Fulminante: Alarme-class gunboat: For French Navy. [115] 22 May United Kingdom: George Cox Bideford: Sarah Newmann: Clipper: For John Leech. [116] 24 May United Kingdom: Messrs. Napier Govan: Earl of Erne: Steamship: For Liverpool and Dundalk Steam Packet Company. [117 ...
Pages in category "1855 ships" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. ... List of ship launches in 1855; A. French ship Algésiras (1855 ...
She was launched on September 4, 1855. [1] Her sister ship Arago was built by Westervelt & Sons. They were both constructed in 1855 for the New York & Havre Steam Navigation Company, then under contract with the United States Government to deliver mail between New York and Le Havre, France. [2] Both were named for steamship pioneers.
Carrier Dove, like Andrew Jackson of Mystic, Mary Whitridge of Baltimore, and Flying Mist of Medford, was a medium clipper, built on a practical modification of clipper ship lines. She combined much of the speed of the sleek, early 1850s extreme clippers with the larger cargo capacity of the fuller-bottomed traditional packet ships.
The Alhambra took its maiden voyage to Marseilles on 7 July 1855. It entered service in Gibraltar on 18 August 1856, and in May the following year was reported as loading in London for Portland Bay. [1] On 18 August 1857, Alhambra sailed for Mauritius from the Port of Geelong. [2] In July, the ship experienced machinery failure off Portuguese ...
HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks, and launched as a wooden steam battleship.
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Indian Space Research Organisation, India's national space agency, maintains an active space program. It operates a small commercial launch service and launched a successful uncrewed lunar mission dubbed Chandrayaan-1 in October 2007. India successfully launched an interplanetary mission, Mars Orbiter Mission, in 2013 which reached Mars in ...