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    SS Otaki was a New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1908 and sunk by a German merchant raider in 1917...
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  • ships: Otaki (1875), a 1,053 GRT ship built in 1875, sold and renamed in 1892. SS Otaki (1908), a refrigerated cargo steamship built in Scotland in 1908 and...
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  • nautical miles (15 km) south of Newhaven, resulting in its total loss. SS Otaki (1908); a refrigerated cargo liner that was the first commercial ship to be...
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    SS Laurentic was a British transatlantic ocean liner that was built in Belfast, Ireland, and launched in 1908. She is an early example of a ship whose...
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  • HMS Ossory (1915) MV Otaio (1957) MV Otaki (1952) MV Ottawa (1950) HMS Paladin (G69) SS Pannonia (1903) SS Partridge (1906) SS Patria (1947) HMS Pegasus (1917)...
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    SS Orsova was a steam ocean liner owned by the Orient Steam Navigation Company. She was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland in 1909 to...
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    two. Denny's had built the refrigerated cargo liner Otaki which they had launched in 1908. Otaki was the first ship in the World to be propelled by a...
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  • fleet renewal programme that continued until 1935. In 1908 William Denny and Brothers built Otaki, the first steamship to be propelled by a combination...
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    Borbon's propulsion on that of the refrigerated cargo liner Otaki which they had launched in 1908. Otaki was the first ship in the World to be propelled by a...
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    the refrigerated cargo liner Otaki, closely followed by the transatlantic liner Laurentic, both launched in 1908. Otaki and Laurentic each had three screws...
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    piston engines with a low-pressure turbine had been pioneered in 1908 in the cargo liner Otaki built by William Denny and Brothers, and the transatlantic liner...
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    SS Healdton was an oil tanker that was launched in Scotland in 1908 as Purelight. In 1916 the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey acquired her and renamed...
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    SS Vigilancia was a merchant steamship that was built in Pennsylvania in 1890. She sailed between New York and Brazil via the West Indies until 1893, when...
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    been pioneered in the UK on the cargo liner Otaki and transatlantic liner Laurentic, both launched in 1908. It had since been applied to the giant Olympic-class...
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    RMS Niagara (redirect from SS Avenger)
    in the New Zealand Shipping Company's refrigerated cargo liner Otaki, launched in 1908. The same company then ordered a passenger liner with a similar...
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    before emigrating to New Zealand in 1895. He set up in general practice in Ōtaki and was the surgeon at the cottage hospital which opened in 1899. Because...
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    United States, at which port she arrived on 26 January 1905. On 26 July 1908, Sierra Blanca ran aground on the South Lyconia Reef. She was refloated after...
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    pioneered in the refrigerated cargo liner Otaki that they had built for the NZ Shipping Co and launched in 1908. A triple-expansion engine drove her port...
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    Shipwrecks 3 Mar: Connaught, Sagamore 5 Mar: Copenhagen 8 Mar: Storstad 10 Mar: Otaki, SM UC-43 12 Mar: HMS E49 13 Mar: SM UC-68 14 Mar: Davanger 16 Mar: SMS Leopard...
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    RMS Medina (1911) SS Minnehaha SS Mount Temple SS Omrah SS Orsova (1908) SS Persia (1900) SS Prunelle (1874) HMT Royal Edward SS Saint Ninian SS Southland (see SS Vaderland (1900))...
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    Satterthwaite & Co Ltd, a leading case on contract law SS Cambridge SS Hertford SS Huntingdon SS Waikato MV Nottingham Isthmian Steamship Company Owen...
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    Trust. Retrieved 23 January 2024. Lloyd's Register 1908, CON–COP. Lettens, Jan (1 December 2021). "SS Copenhagen [+1917]". wrecksite. Retrieved 23 January...
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  • Packet Co; Scrapped 1957 1908 SS Otaki 7,420 Yard number 835. New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917 1909 SS Ruahine 10,870 Yard...
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  • on 26 March 1917 off Dungeness. Her crew were rescued by HMS Mermaid and SS Tambour, with the loss of one life. In total this supplement to the programme...
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  • victims were fishing smacks, traditionally outfitted with red ochre sails SS Hollandia, a Swedish cargo ship, was sunk by UB-6 in March 1916. "SM" stands...
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