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SS Cotopaxi was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. The ship, launched 15 November 1918, was named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano of Ecuador .
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"The COTOPAXI's last radio transmission was November 30, 1925, when she reported she was taking on water off the Florida coast; her position was roughly estimated to be off Jacksonville. ("Defends Condition of Lost Steamship", New York Times, January 5, 1928) In 1928, a lawsuit was heard by federal court on the loss of the COTOPAXI.
Cotopaxi's most violent eruptions in historical times occurred in the years 1742, 1744, 1768, and 1877. The 1744 and 1768 events destroyed the colonial town of Latacunga . During the June 26, 1877 eruption, pyroclastic flows descended on all sides of the mountain melting the entire ice cap, with lahars traveling more than 100 km (62 mi) into ...
USS Cyclops (AC-4) was the second of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I. [citation needed] Named after the Cyclops, a race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. naval vessel to bear the name.
On May 26, 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, reformatted as a series of longer documentaries, released approximately monthly, under the new blanket title The New York Times Presents. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] A third production season, its second season under the NYT Presents title, began airing on May 20, 2022. [ 5 ]
The New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly called the Ward Line, was a shipping company that operated from 1841 until liquidated in 1954. The line operated out of New York City's Piers 15, 16, and 17—land which later became the site of the South Street Seaport and also the Manhattan terminal of the IKEA- Red Hook ferry route.
SS New York was a German passenger liner [1] launched in 1926 for the Hamburg-America Line and was the sister to the SS Albert Ballin, SS Deutschland, and SS Hamburg.During World War II the ship continued its passenger service until in 1940, the Kriegsmarine requisitioned it as a accommodation ship for the war.