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The passenger ship ran aground in a heavy gale and burned on the south east shoal of Lake Erie. Cleveco United States: 3 December 1942 While barge Cleveco was being towed by the tug Admiral, the tug-barge combination encountered a heavy gale. The tug sank first, and then the barge foundered.
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 ...
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
Famous Ocean Liners: The Story of Passenger Shipping, from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day ISBN 978-0-85059-876-6 (1987) Liner: Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs ISBN 978-0-85059-765-3 (1987) Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986: A Photographic Survey ISBN 978-0-486-25540-8 (1988)
Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered stern-wheeled towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, United States.She is dry docked and on display at the Buffalo Bill Museum in LeClaire. Built in 1868, she is the oldest of three surviving steam-powered towboats, and the only one with a wooden hull.
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1900 Ship State Description Townsend United States During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from Skagway to Haines Mission with eight passengers, a crew of 20, and no cargo aboard, the 450-gross register ton, 125-foot (38 m) steamer was wrecked on rocks in Lynn Canal halfway between Haines Mission and Battery Point after her engine failed during a gale in 22 fathoms ...
Pages in category "World War I passenger ships" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. W. SS Westralia (1896)
The packet steamer Pulaski, bound for Baltimore, Maryland, departed Charleston, South Carolina on June 14, 1838, under Captain DuBois, with a crew of 37 and 131 passengers on board. [ 4 ] That night at about 11 p.m., when the ship was 30 miles (48 km) off the coast of North Carolina, the starboard boiler exploded, destroying the middle of the ship.