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Five days later a ship spotted the ‘Cleopatra’ floating undamaged off the northern coast of Spain, and she was towed to the Ferrol, Galicia. There a steam-ship, the Anglia, arrived to tow her to London. They arrived at Gravesend on 21 January 1878. [1] Cleopatra was broken up immediately after the obelisk had been removed on 6 July 1878 ...
A British sailing ship that ran aground at Cabo San Diego. [1] Abandoned early the next morning and using the ship's boats, her crew of 33 made landfall on Staten Island on Christmas day. The crew were stranded there for 83 days before being picked up by HMS Cleopatra. All were saved.
The blame was placed on a rushed construction, and the crew struggled to keep the ship operational. The passengers protested to the company about the poor condition of the ship, but also reported "the splendid conduct of the officers and crew." The Cleopatra returned to London, limited to half-speed the crossing took 21 days. Once she had ...
Her team additionally found a half-length statue of a king wearing the Nemes headdress of 337 coins — many of which featured Cleopatra’s image — oil lamps, a scarab amulet with the words ...
HMS Cleopatra was a 26-gun Vestal-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 28 April 1835. She was to have been launched in July 1834 and fitted thereafter. [ 1 ]
Galley of the Austrian passenger ship SS Africa in the Mediterranean Sea, c. 1905. The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared. [1] It can also refer to a land-based kitchen on a naval base, or, from a kitchen design point of view, to a straight design of the kitchen layout.
Cleopatra towing Thetis towards the Chesapeake on 31 December 1794. Cleopatra continued her effective career against raiders by capturing the privateer Trois Amis on 24 March 1793 in company with HMS Lizard. [1] She was operating from Nova Scotia from 1794. On 17 November 1794, Lynx recaptured Amphitrite. [4] Cleopatra shared in the reward. [5]
Cleopatra Memorial, St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai Cleopatra was a Victorian-era wooden paddle steam frigate [4] of the East India Company. [4] Constructed at Northfleet, the ship arrived at Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 April 1840, [5] and operated as a transport and mail steamer between Bombay to Karachi, Aden and Suez.