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On her first whaling voyage, Two Brothers left Nantucket on 21 November 1818, with George B. Worth, master. On March 5, 1821, the ship encountered fellow Nantucket whaleship Dauphin which on February 23 had rescued Captain George Pollard Jr. and crewman Charles Ramsdell who were on a whaleboat from the whaleship Essex which had sunk after being rammed twice by a sperm whale.
Deux Frères (literally Two Brothers) was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the two brothers of King Louis XVI. [2] The ship was laid down at Brest in July 1782, and launched on 17 September 1784, based on a design by Antoine Groignard, and built by Jacques-Augustin Lamothe. [1]
Single hull, Double bottom, and Double hull ship cross sections. Green lines are watertight; black structure is not watertight. A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface: one outer layer forming the normal hull of the ship, and a second inner hull which is some distance inboard ...
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ordered two sister ships, RMS Maloja and RMS Mooltan, from Harland & Wolff Ltd on 29 November 1918. Hull number 588 [ 1 ] was named Maloja , after a previous SS Maloja that was a 1911 M-class liner that had been sunk by a German mine in 1916.
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Brothers (1815 ship) was built in Whitby, England in 1815. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC), and two transporting convicts to Australia. Afterwards she traded across the Atlantic, primarily to Quebec, and was last listed in 1837. Brothers (1816 ship) was an Australian schooner of 40 tons wrecked in 1816.
Passenger and cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk as a target in 1952. 1905 SS Maheno: 5282 746 Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in ...
The ship was built by Perrine, Patterson, and Stack in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and launched on November 2, 1850. [4] [5] It was commissioned by Edward Mills, a New Yorker who tried to operate a shipping business during the California Gold Rush, [4] and was named after Brother Jonathan, a character personifying the region of New England.