SS Hebrides was a passenger and cargo ship which operated in the Western Isles of Scotland. Built in 1898 for John MacCallum, she became part of the fleet...
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Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the waters of the Minch, the Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides....
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collectively as the Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides are separated from the Inner Hebrides by The Minch to the north and the Sea of the Hebrides to the south...
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David MacBrayne (category Transport in the Outer Hebrides)
Carbineer (1878) SS Flowerdale (1878) SS Claymore (II) (1881) SS Cavalier (1883) SS Texa (1884) PS Grenadier (1885) PS Fusilier (1888) SS Hebrides (1898) (McCallum...
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Services. For services to Civil Defence. Captain Donald McFarlane, Master, SS Hebrides, McCallum Orme & Company Ltd. Major James Golder Macfarlane, TD, Officer...
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British explorer Captain James Cook, who named them the New Hebrides, after the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, a name that lasted until independence...
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Dil Mein Loch Maddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK; a sea loch; see List of bays of the Outer Hebrides#Loch Maddy Maddyness, an online newspaper...
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in 1902 68 SS Tobruk Italian Navy gunboat 1897 Built as yacht Evona - since 1912 RN Tobruk 70 SS Hebrides Passenger ship 24 March 1898 78 SS Katoomba Patrol...
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Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base, part of current-day Vanuatu. President Coolidge had a sister ship, SS President Hoover, completed...
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Charles Stewart, Foreman, Jute Industries Ltd. James Stewart, Donkeyman, SS Hebrides (McCallum Orme & Company Ltd.). John Arthur Stewart, lately Chief Warden...
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known. A message in a bottle found on the remote island of Uist within the Hebrides in 1861 declared her sunk by icebergs. For several decades prior to the...
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Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Mary Trump emigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and became a naturalized...
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List of Empire ships (U–Z) (redirect from SS Empire Unitas IV)
Renamed Empire Woodlark in 1942. Scuttled on 2 November 1946 north of the Hebrides (59°00′N 07°40′W / 59.000°N 7.667°W / 59.000; -7.667) with a cargo of...
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banknotes. Much of the whisky was recovered by islanders from across the Hebrides, contrary to marine salvage laws. Because no duty had been paid on the...
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Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo (redirect from Naval Base New Hebrides)
a joint British and French New Hebrides colony. The administration was the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides. U.S. troops first set up a base...
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SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship...
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USS Solace (AH-5) (redirect from SS Iroquois (1927))
The second USS Solace (AH-5) was built in 1927 as the passenger ship SS Iroquois by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia...
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HS postcode area (category Outer Hebrides)
known as the Outer Hebrides postcode area, is a group of nine postcode districts, within eight post towns, covering the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is...
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SS Har Zion (Hebrew: הַר צִיּוֹן, lit. 'Mount Zion') was a passenger and cargo steamship that was built in Denmark in 1907 as St. Jan for Det Østasiatiske...
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Barra (category Islands of the Outer Hebrides)
Eilean Bharraigh [ˈelan ˈvarˠaj] ; Scots: Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the...
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SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated...
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Hijri Shamsi) Holy Spirit HS postcode area, covering the Outer Hebrides, Scotland SS-Heimatschutz Slowakei (HS), a German paramilitary group in Slovakia...
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SS Deutschland was a 21,046 gross registered ton (GRT) German HAPAG ocean liner which was sunk in a British air attack on May 3, 1945. Before the sinking...
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Islay (category Cleared places in the Inner Hebrides)
Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", it lies in Argyll and Bute just south west of...
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Papar (section Papar in the Hebrides)
(Scottish Gaelic: Pabaigh) in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland: Pabbay, Barra Isles Pabbay, Harris Pabay, the Inner Hebrides near Skye Pabaigh, Loch Baghasdail...
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sunk by US destroyers: USS Ellet, USS Patterson and others off the New Hebrides islands approximately 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Espiritu Santo. Japanese...
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Roy Courlander (category SS non-commissioned officers)
to live and work on a coconut plantation owned by his father in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific. His mother married Frederick Bohne in 1933 and eventually...
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for "Eric's Isle", is an island and community council area of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland with a population of 143, as of the 2011 census. It...
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List of Empire ships (M) (redirect from SS Empire Mammoth)
Mermaid. Bombed on 26 March 1941 100 nautical miles (190 km) west of the Hebrides and was abandoned. Sank on 28 March at 57°33′N 12°43′W / 57.550°N 12...
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