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    the New Jersey Steamship Navigation and Transportation Company in December 1838 for around US$60,000. From 1835 to 1840, the Lexington was the fastest...
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  • New York City Lexington-class aircraft carrier, the first operational aircraft carrier class in the United States Navy Steamship Lexington, which burned...
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  • SS Lexington may refer to: SS Lexington (1835), an American steamship that caught fire and sank in January 1840 with the loss of all but 4 of the 143 on...
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    The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2)...
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    steamship route in 1900, ending the existence of the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company. A New Haven subsidiary, the New England Steamship Company...
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    the president, secretary, treasurer, and commodore of the Knickerbocker Steamship Company. Most boatmen felt that Van Schaick "was unjustly made a scapegoat...
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  • Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and was renamed Lexington. In 1941, the ship was sold to the Norlasco Steamship Company of New York and renamed Norlantic....
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  • built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City. The...
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    Packet boat (category Steamships)
    the cost of its travel.[citation needed] However, the advantage for a steamship carrying mail was that its arrival would be advertised in advance in the...
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    played a major role in Kentucky's economy. Louisville was a major port for steamships in the nineteenth century. Today, most barge traffic on Kentucky waterways...
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  • operated on the Missouri River in the early 1850s. The ship exploded near Lexington, Missouri in 1852, killing over 100 people, making it one of the worst...
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    USS Langley (CV-1) (category Turbo-electric steamships)
    partially built Lexington-class battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga, freeing up their hulls for conversion to the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga...
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  • The Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1935 as a means of bringing together amateur and...
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    the SS Admiral Sampson, a U.S. cargo and passenger steamship, when it was rammed by the steamship, Princess Victoria, in fog near Seattle, Washington...
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    The Grand Trunk steamship Prince Rupert and her sister ship SS Prince George served the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. Prince Rupert had a 45-year...
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    and the Cadet Rangers in the Civil War. Lexington, SC: Palmetto Bookworks, 1989. ISBN 0-9623065-0-9. "Steamships on the Panama Route – Both Atlantic and...
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  • only the captain and two men on board the sinking vessel. The Pioneer Steamship Company's Frank R. Billings and the F.G. Hartwell were nearby. The Billings...
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    Lewis C. Robards (category People from Lexington, Kentucky)
    Robards (fl. 1848–1855) was a 19th-century American slave trader of Lexington, Kentucky. He had an unscrupulous reputation as a dealer, and he was widely...
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  • International Mercantile Marine Co., W. R. Grace and Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. From about 1933 to 1937 the shipyard was part of Errett Lobban...
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    James E. Pepper (category Companies based in Lexington, Kentucky)
    American whiskey maker with that name who built and operated a distillery in Lexington, Kentucky, and marketed his whiskey under his family's brand name "Old...
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    The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company's new steamship, the Columbia, was the first commercial application for Edison's incandescent light bulb in...
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    Sino-French War (1884–85). But the defeat at sea, and the resulting threat to steamship traffic to Taiwan, forced China to conclude peace on unfavorable terms...
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    clydeships.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-30. "TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Burning of the Steamship Louisiana. —Great Loss of Life" (PDF). The Opelousas Courier. 13 June...
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    back is orange. 1865 (1865): A national bank note with "The Battle of Lexington" and Pocahontas's marriage to John Rolfe in black, and a green border...
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    Drew (July 29, 1797 – September 18, 1879) was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier. Summarizing his life, Henry Clews...
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  • Abraham c-10m February 12, 1973 Video The Big Lighthouse and the Little Steamship c-6m July 1, 1970 Big Mouth Goes to the Dentist c-13m 1979 Big Sun and...
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  • Roosevelt (1778–1832) Solomon Roosevelt (1807–1900), shipbuilder, built many steamships under the firm Roosevelt & Joyce, including the USS Morse. See Allaire...
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    USS Salem (CA-139) as well as the Navy's first carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and its successor USS Lexington (CV-16). The light cruiser USS San Juan CL-54 was built...
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  • SS Lexington was an American Passenger ship that collided with Jane Christenson and sank on 2 January 1935 on the East River in New York City while carrying...
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    elegant paddlewheel steamship Lexington, lost beneath the..." United Press International. October 12, 1983. Retrieved May 3, 2020. "Lexington". National Underwater...
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