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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.
Passenger and cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk as a target in 1952. 1905 SS Maheno: 5282 746 Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in ...
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Originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, completed instead as passenger ship. 1950s SS Independence: February 1951 American Export Lines: Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [26] Henry ...
The ship was built by Perrine, Patterson, and Stack in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and launched on November 2, 1850. [4] [5] It was commissioned by Edward Mills, a New Yorker who tried to operate a shipping business during the California Gold Rush, [4] and was named after Brother Jonathan, a character personifying the region of New England.
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Passenger ship: For Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. [5] 15 April United Kingdom: Vickers: Barrow in Furness: A2: A-class submarine for the Royal Navy: 16 April United States: Eastern Shipbuilding Company: Groton, Connecticut: Minnesota: Passenger ship for the Great Northern Steamship Company: 18 April United States: Newport News ...
Brothers arrived at Havana on 22 March 1795, under the command of Captain Pica. She had embarked 216 captives and arrived with 208, for a 4% mortality rate. [ 14 ] Philip Allwood, an agent for Brothers , requested that the Merchant Tribunal in Havana issue an injunction returning the 207 captives to Brother ' s owners.