• SS Petriana was an iron screw steamer built in 1879 that was converted into an oil tanker. On 28 November 1903, while transporting 1,300 tonnes of petroleum...
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    first ever delivery of bulk kerosene to Australia. In 1903, the tanker SS Petriana – owned by the Shell/Royal Dutch joint venture Asiatic Petroleum Company...
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    major oil spill occurred off Point Nepean in 1903, with the wreck of SS Petriana. It remained Australia's largest oil spill until 1975. Point Nepean Post...
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  • Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. "Petriana, 28 November 1903". Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Retrieved 15...
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    of the tanker Yung Hao. China portal Energy portal Companies portal SS Petriana, APC vessel that caused one of the first major maritime oil spills Photograph...
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  • the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. November 28 – SS Petriana is wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the...
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  • Andrew Leslie & Co include: SS Petriana, chemical and oil product tanker, completed in 1879 for Bell & Symonds, London. SS Tantallon, cargo steamship,...
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    elections in which Deakin was the sitting prime minister. The wreck of SS Petriana outside Port Phillip Bay in late November prompted the government's handling...
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    Act, the legal vehicle of the White Australia Policy. In 1903, when SS Petriana grounded on rocks at Portsea Back Beach, he, against all traditions of...
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    Washbourne, English actress; in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England (d. 1988) SS Petriana was wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the...
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    SS Madiana was a passenger and cargo steam ship designed and built in the Robert Napier and Sons shipyard in Glasgow in 1877 as SS Balmoral Castle. She...
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    SS Asiatic (sometimes operated as the RMS Asiatic) was a steamship operated by the White Star Line from 1871 to 1873, a sister ship to Tropic. Sold off...
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  • until the appointment of a new governor. 28 November – The oil tanker SS Petriana strikes a reef at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. Two days later, its...
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  • SS Oakland was a small general cargo/passenger ship commissioned in 1890, Dumbarton, Scotland, for New South Wales, Australia, timber merchant William...
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  • SS Huddersfield was a passenger-cargo ship built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872. Huddersfield was built by John Elder and...
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  • SS Warrington was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886. The ship was built by Swan Hunter...
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    SS Vega was a Swedish barque, built in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1872. The Vega was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and...
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    the Vatican City played SV Vollmond, a team from Switzerland, at Stadio Petriana with Vatican City prevailing 5–1. The team has also competed against a...
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    SS Pisa was a cargo and passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1896. She was in German ownership until 1917, when the United States seized her...
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    The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland...
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  • including a large number of derricks and modern cranes similar to her sister-ship SS Huron. Following an inspection and the successful completion of sea trials...
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    livestock. Some of the cattle was taken aboard by two small steamers, SS Argyle and SS Grand Lake, that came by, but the rest had to be lowered from the steamer...
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    143°04′19″E / 38.64861°S 143.07194°E / -38.64861; 143.07194 (Loch Ard (ship)) Petriana  United Kingdom 28 November 1903 An oil tanker that struck a reef off Point...
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    short time. This second SS Empress of China and of India would be renamed several more times—as SS Montlaurier in 1922; and as SS Montnairn in 1925. The...
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  • 1903 "Alwina (5601896)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "Petriana, 28 November 1903". Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Retrieved 15...
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    Register of Shipping. 1906. ETO–EUP – via Internet Archive. Cunard Heritage site MaritimeQuest RMS Etruria Photo Gallery (SS Etruria, 1885-1909 ; 7,718 tons)...
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    250 A photo of the SS Hawkesbury and SS Narara at the junction of the Colo and Hawkesbury Rivers in 1904 can be found here [1] The SS Narara commenced her...
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    sailed in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1894 she was involved in an accident with SS Ohio which was sunk. She sank in September 1903 in a storm while hauling iron...
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  • 30 October  United Kingdom A. Leslie and Company Newcastle upon Tyne Petriana Cargo ship For Bell & Symonds. 30 October  Queensland R. R. Smellie & Co...
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