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The ship was named after Mount Earnslaw, a 2,889-metre (9,478 ft) peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu. She was to be 51.2 metres (168 ft 0 in) long, the biggest boat on the lake, and the largest steamship built in New Zealand. [4] Transporting the Earnslaw was no easy task. When construction was finally completed, she was dismantled.
SS Ben Lomond was an 1872 twin-screw steamer plying the waters of Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand.For some years she was the oldest vessel on Lloyd's Register. [1]The new Scotch marine-type steel boiler for the Ben Lomond, built by Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin in 1933
Lake Wakatipu comes from the original Māori name Whakatipu wai-māori. [1] With a length of 80 kilometres (50 mi), it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at 289 km 2 (112 sq mi), its third largest. The lake is also very deep, its floor being below sea level (−110 metres), with a maximum depth of 420 metres (1,380 ft).
The S.S. Wakatipu sinks the Laira at Dunedin wharf, 2 April 1898 Dry plate glass negative; Reference No. 1/1-002197-G; De Maus Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand; Find out more about this image from the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Early on May 1, 1940, the Arlington began to sink and the ship's chief engineer sounded the alarm. The crew, “out of fear for their lives, and without orders from Captain Burke,” began to ...
The ship was towed and beached. 33 people died while around 200 passengers were rescued. [51] 33 2012 Italy: Costa Concordia – The Italian cruise ship ran aground, capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people (27 passengers and 5 crewmembers) out of 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crewmembers aboard. 32
The Facebook post reads, “17 Missiles Sink 4 Ships: Houthis Strike U.S. Warship, Oil Tanker, Container Ships In Arabian Sea.” This claim is false. There is no evidence that the ships were sunk ...
A ship that took on water in Lake Superior likely had a stress fracture in its hull, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday, backing off an initial report that the freighter had struck something below ...