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Map of Ben and Elinore Carlin's round-the-world trip. The journey, with the amphibious vehicle Half-Safe, began in 1950 and ended in 1958, having covered more than 17,000 km by sea and 62,000 km by land. Elinore Carlin accompanied her husband to Australia. The journey between India and Australia (dotted line) was made by boat.
USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. a
The course is between Saint Malo, Brittany, Metropolitan France and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, overseas France, in the Caribbean. The first competition, won by Canadian Michael Birch in his boat Olympus Photo by a margin of 98 seconds over second-placed Michel Malinovsky in Kriter V , was held in 1978, and was marked in tragedy by the ...
SS Ben Seyr was a steel-built coastal cargo vessel which was operated out of Ramsey, Isle of Man for the Ramsey Steamship Company; ostensibly to Liverpool, Belfast and Whitehaven. [1] Her name, Ben Seyr, came from the Manx Gaelic term for gentlewoman. [ 1 ]
SS Ben Doran was a steam fishing trawler that operated out of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was launched in 1900 [ 1 ] and operated until its wrecking on the Ve Skerries , Shetland , on 29 March 1930, which claimed the lives of the full crew, believed to number nine crew members.
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The Ben Line or Ben Line Steamers, Limited was a Scottish shipping company based in Leith, Scotland founded in 1825 which was primarily involved in the Far East to Europe trade. A private company, it was largely owned by members of the Thomson family from Leith and the Thomson and Mitchell family from Alloa .