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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.
The interior layout of Hamburg was based on an axial design, with a central passageway running through the ship on each deck. In order to accomplish this, the funnel uptakes had to be divided. [6] The first notable passenger liner to have featured such a design had been another German ship, SS Vaterland of 1914. [32]
Marckwald had one of the highest honors of being chosen to design the interiors of the SS United States. Designed by William Francis Gibbs and completed in 1952, it was the fastest and largest passenger ship ever built at the time. The main purpose of the ship was to transport large numbers of soldiers across seas as quickly as possible, and it ...
Alden Design No. 356-B Centerboard Schooner – a 74-foot wooden schooner designed by John G. Alden and built in Belize 2 masted, gaff foresail Mercantile: 1916 Camden, Maine: National Historic Landmark former coastal trader, now tourism vessel 2 masted gaff Mystic: 2007 Mystic, Connecticut: Tourism/charter vessel 3 masted gaff, square topsails ...
The bulk of second-class passenger staterooms were located aft of midship, between D and F Decks. Second Class on E-Deck ran along the starboard side of the ship. Only the cabins all the way aft, E89 through E107, were considered "permanent" Second Class; E43 through E88 were considered "Second Class/Alternate First Class" cabins.
Santa Rosa bore some resemblance to later ships designed by Gibbs & Cox, the SS America and SS United States [10] such as the signature winged funnel. The public rooms were all on the promenade deck. The dining room was located on this deck between the two funnels and had an atrium stretching up two and a half decks.
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The company chose the same propulsion system for Strathnaver and Strathaird, but the "Straths" were slightly larger ships, their turbo-electric equipment was much more powerful [1] and they were about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) faster than Viceroy of India. Strathaird was very similar to Strathnaver. Each had four water-tube boilers and two auxiliary ...