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    SS Britannia was a British Passenger Liner that was scrapped after 22 years of duty (1887–1909) at Genoa, Italy. Britannia was constructed in 1887 at the...
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  • blockship at Scapa Flow in 1914. SS Britannia (1887), scrapped in 1909. SS Britannia (1889), sunk by SM UC-75 in 1917 SS Britannia (1902), operating in Howe...
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  • and steel ships. Among his designs were the British passenger liner SS Britannia (1887) and the Norwegian barque Skomvær (1890). Hansen was born in Bergen...
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  • Heritage: Mail by Sea 6 X 1st class: Packet Antelope (1780), SS Great Western (1838), SS Britannia (1887), RMS Olympic (1911), RMS Queen Mary (1936), RMS St Helena...
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  • Victoria, Australia. 16 May 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia. Perhaps SS Britannia (1882) "Goulburn Weir". Gouldburn-Murray...
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    Christabel (1893), SS Saint Ninian (1894), USS Alcedo (1895), SS Caledonia (1904), SS Ancona (1907), SS California (1907), SS Taormina (1908), SS Verona (1908)...
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    SS Nomadic is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 at Belfast, that is now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. She was...
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    others from the former Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, HMS Endeavour, The Battle of Hastings, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Olympic, SS Great Britain, RSS Discovery, an original...
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    the US. Columbia and Ste. Claire were originally joined by a third, SS Britannia, built in 1906. During their heyday, Columbia and Ste. Claire sailed...
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    SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845...
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    1887 and to the battleship HMS Agincourt, flagship of the Channel Squadron, in November 1887. He joined the staff of the training ship HMS Britannia in...
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    RMS Segwun (redirect from SS Segwun)
    decommissioned SS Nipissing from a paddle-wheeler to a twin propeller passenger steamer. Nipissing's wrought iron hull was built on the Clyde in 1887 and was...
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    bookshop and missionary ship. The ship has previously been known as the SS Medina, the SS Roma, the MV Franca C, and the MV Doulos. Doulos ended her final cruise...
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    Latin ending -ia, common in the Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia, Zealandia, and others). The earliest type of personification...
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    The notation ss/dd for a number of shillings and pence was widely used (e.g., "19/11" for nineteen shillings and eleven pence). The form ss/– was used for...
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    28 Cities of Britain Archived 15 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine" at Britannia. 2000. "Nine things you didn't know about Grantchester". Cambridge News...
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  • 25 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018. "Royal Yacht Britannia". Royal Yacht Britannia. Retrieved 17 September 2016. "Maritime Tales – tug boats...
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    needed] The Queensland tour began on Sunday 12 April when the royal yacht Britannia entered Moreton Bay at Caloundra, sailing into Newstead Wharf. After visiting...
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    SS Robin is a 350 gross registered ton (GRT) steam coaster, a class of steamship designed for carrying bulk and general cargoes in coastal waters, and...
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    SS Zhongshan, formerly romanized as Chung Shan, was a Chinese gunboat built in Japan in 1913. It was originally known as SS Yongfeng (romanized at the...
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    SS Meteor is the sole surviving ship of the unconventional "whaleback" design. The design, created by Scottish captain Alexander McDougall, enabled her...
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    with 21 hotels eventually springing up, among them notably the Wawa and Britannia hotels and perhaps culminating in the Bigwin Inn. The hotels became the...
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    Montreal. Two months later the first of the four ocean-going steamers of the Britannia Class, departed Liverpool. By coincidence, the steamer's departure had...
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    William (1849) [composed c. 1612]. The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia. London: Hakluyt Society. p. 111. Retrieved January 5, 2019. Rountree...
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    England in autumn 1796. In 1799 the King approved the Regiment's use of Britannia as its symbol. The next period of active service was the unsuccessful...
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    busy port with visits from cruise liners and the home of the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Ocean Terminal shopping centre, and administrative offices for several...
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    SS Keewatin is a passenger liner which once travelled between Port Arthur/Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian...
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    Fife coast. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia in 1877. He was posted to the corvette HMS Bacchante in July 1879, having...
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    depicting Sikh, Highlander and Gurkha cavalry and infantry, and statues of Britannia/Victory and India/Fortitude in front and behind. After the statue was...
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    MV Katarina (redirect from SS Fredriksborg)
    Wavertree⚓ (1885) Balclutha⚓ (1886) L'Almée⚓ (1885) Segwun⛵ (1887) Sigyn⚓ (1887) Tyr⚓ (1887) Akarana⚓ (1888) af Chapman⚓ (1888) Elf⛵ (1888) Equator⚓ (1888)...
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