• SS Empire Chamois was a 5,864 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1918 by Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock Co, Seattle. She was ordered by the Compagnie Générale...
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  • (disambiguation) Grandview High School (disambiguation) SS Granview, former name of the SS Empire Chamois This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Defence Casualty Service, Chesterfield. Robert Twizell, Boatswain, SS Empire Chamois (Booth Steamship Company Ltd.). Joseph George Tyler, Driver, Joint...
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  • renamed Empire Chamois. Sold in 1946 to Goulandris Bros and renamed Granview. Sold in 1949 to Compagnia Maritime del Este, Panama and renamed Chamois. Scrapped...
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    1946 Federal Tort Claims Act. SS Grandcamp was a recently re-activated 437-foot-long (133 m) Liberty ship. Originally named SS Benjamin R. Curtis in Los Angeles...
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    (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. not cited. ISBN 1-85044-275-4. "Launched 1920: ss MAUDIE"...
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  • On 18 April 1945, St. Boniface collided with the merchant vessel SS Empire Chamois in the approaches to Halifax. The minesweeper made Halifax under her...
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  • Gripfast was a 2,852 GRT coaster which was built in 1941 as Empire Brook for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was sold into civil service in 1946...
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    in 2000 by Seymour Simckes. The book chronicles the life of the captain of SS ExodusYossi Harel]]. Patria disaster Struma disaster Antoinette Feuerwerker...
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  • disaster occurred near Bombay (now Mumbai) in India. The Indian passenger ship SS Ramdas, while bound for Rewas in Maharashtra, capsized on 17 July 1947, near...
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    SS Heimara (sometimes spelled as Himara or Chimara, Greek: Χειμάρρα) was a passenger steamer operating the Piraeus – Thessaloniki route. The ship hit a...
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    Together with Queen Mary and in competition with the American liners SS United States and SS America, Queen Elizabeth dominated the transatlantic passenger...
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    Onomea was acquired by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed Empire Leopard and placed into convoy service on the North Atlantic, delivering...
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    fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1946 as Empire Dunbar by Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham for the Ministry...
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    is abundant and includes bears, wild boars, wolves, foxes, squirrels, chamois and deer. The lynx is found, very rarely, in the mountains of western Macedonia...
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    SS Samtampa was a 7,219 ton steamship wrecked on Sker Point, off Porthcawl and Kenfig, Wales, in the Bristol Channel on 23 April 1947. At the time of the...
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  • SS Gairsoppa was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1919 and sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941. 85 of her complement were killed, and...
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    suitable for the hunting all medium-sized game such as the deer family, chamois, mouflon, bighorn sheep, wild boar and bear. The 7.92×57mm Mauser can offer...
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    of rare species, such as the golden eagle, the Abruzzo (or Abruzzese) chamois, the Apennine wolf and the Marsican brown bear. Abruzzo's parks and reserves...
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  • and renamed SS Empire Springbuck, and operated under the management of W. A. Souter and Company of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Empire Springbuck was...
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    USS Bugara (redirect from SS-331)
    USS Bugara (SS-331), a Balao-class submarine in commission from 1944 to 1970, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bugara, a multicolored...
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    Mar: RFA Wave Laird 28 Mar: Clio 4 Apr: USS Ernest G. Small 5 Apr: Empire Chamois 14 Apr: Queen Elizabeth 16 Apr: Texas City disaster 18 Jul: Exodus 8...
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    SS Willehad was a passenger and cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1894 for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). For her first few years she took emigrants...
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    SS Ashkhabad was a merchant ship of the Soviet Union sunk in 1942. She had been built as a British merchant ship in 1917 in Glasgow, Scotland as War Hostage...
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    USS S-24 (redirect from SS-129)
    USS S-24 (SS-129) was a first-group (S-1 or "Holland") S-class submarine of the United States Navy. During World War II, she also served in the Royal Navy...
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  • The SS Belgian was a 5,287-ton steamship which was built in 1919, sold in 1934 becoming Amelia Lauro, seized in 1940 and renamed Empire Activity and wrecked...
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    SS Bärenfels was a German steam cargo liner that was launched in 1921 for DDG Hansa. In 1940, she took part in the German invasion of Norway and was sunk...
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    Mar: RFA Wave Laird 28 Mar: Clio 4 Apr: USS Ernest G. Small 5 Apr: Empire Chamois 14 Apr: Queen Elizabeth 16 Apr: Texas City disaster 18 Jul: Exodus 8...
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    000. On 14 November 1947, Orleck collided with the submarine USS Bugara (SS-331) while Bugara was making a submerged practice attack against her in the...
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    SS Sir Harvey Adamson was a coastal passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1914 for the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI). She traded...
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