SS City of Everett was an important whaleback steamship. She sailed from 1894 until 1923, and was the first U.S. steamship to pass through the Suez Canal...
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Everett (/ˈɛvərɪt/; Lushootseed: dᶻəɬigʷəd) is the county seat and most populous city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is 25 miles (40 km)...
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road in New Hampshire N7470 or the City of Everett, the first flight-worthy Boeing 747-100 airliner SS City of Everett, a whaleback steamship best known...
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SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
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SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...
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Great Blue Hole (category Caves of Belize)
sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular...
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SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western...
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Blue Hole (Red Sea) (redirect from Death of Yuri Lipski)
kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. The Blue Hole is a submarine sinkhole, with a maximum depth within the hole of just over 100 m...
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facility in the state of Florida. Vortex Spring is a cold, freshwater spring that produces approximately 28 million US gallons (110,000 m3) of water daily. The...
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Cenote (category Caves of Mexico)
Maya settlements required access to adequate water supplies, and therefore cities, including the famous Chichen Itza, were built around these natural wells...
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Built for the French Line, Antilles was a near-sister to SS Flandre of 1952. Her construction was completed and her maiden voyage made in 1953. She differed...
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[self-published source] "cristo degli abissi". Fuori Genova (in Italian). City of Genoa. Milano, Barbara (16 July 2018). "Il Cristo Degli Abissi Restaurato...
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Blue Hole (New Mexico) (category Bodies of water of Guadalupe County, New Mexico)
Moreover, the Army Corps of Engineers dumped two truckloads of rock and debris into the grate, apparently without the knowledge of city officials. In 2013,...
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bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef). Blue holes typically contain tidally influenced water of fresh, marine, or mixed...
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HMHS Britannic (category Passenger ships of the United Kingdom)
the White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by the award of SS Bismarck as part of postwar reparations; she entered service as RMS Majestic...
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Punta Cana (section List of authorities)
population of 138,919 inhabitants. Punta Cana is the second-most popular tourist destination in Latin America, with more visitors than any other city in the...
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Great Barrier Reef (redirect from Effects of pollution on the Great Barrier Reef)
accessibility. These areas make up 7–8% of the park's area. The Whitsundays and Cairns have their own Plans of Management. Many cities along the Queensland coast offer...
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SS Antilla (or "ES Antilla", with "ES" standing for "Elektroschiff" German: electric ship) was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) cargo ship that was launched...
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Silfra (category Geology of Iceland)
Þingvellir valley; Silfra lies at the rim of the Þingvallavatn Lake and is one of the largest and deepest of these fissures. The Silfra fissure intercepts...
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SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands...
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course of about N76E (076 degrees) and soon sighted the masthead lights of SS Storstad, a Norwegian collier, on her starboard bow at a distance of several...
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Boesmansgat (category Caves of South Africa)
cave (or sinkhole) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which has been dived to a depth of 282.6 metres (927 ft). Boesmansgat was believed to...
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SS Yongala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She sank in a cyclone off the coast of Queensland...
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Koni-class frigate (category Ship classes of the Volksmarine)
being upgraded with new electronics, ASW torpedo tubes and 8 x Kh-35 Uran/SS-N-25 Switchblade anti-ship missiles Cuba - 3, 356 (No name) ex SKR-471 sunk...
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167°14′6.78″E / 15.5242000°S 167.2352167°E / -15.5242000; 167.2352167 SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in...
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Battlecruisers 1905–1970. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-07247-3. Brown, D. K. (1995). The Design And Construction Of British Warships 1939–1945...
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mate of the SS Carl D. Bradley. The SS Cedarville left Port Calcite at 5:01 a.m. with a crew of 35 men. She was travelling between Rogers City, Michigan...
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Cozumel (redirect from History of Cozumel)
seat is located in San Miguel de Cozumel, the largest city in the municipality. Cozumel is one of the locations featured in the 2006 video game Tom Clancy's...
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Hranice Abyss (category Sinkholes of the Czech Republic)
is a karst sinkhole near the town of Hranice, Czech Republic. The greatest confirmed depth is 519.5 m (1,704 ft), of which 450 m (1,476 ft) is underwater...
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Molokini (category Islands of Hawaii)
ʻAlalākeiki Channel between the islands of Maui and Kahoʻolawe, within Maui County in Hawaiʻi. It is the remains of one of the seven Pleistocene epoch volcanoes...
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