William Irving was a steamship captain and entrepreneur in Oregon, US and British Columbia, Canada. The Irvington neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, is...
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John Irving (November 24, 1854 – August or October 10, 1936) was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the...
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Irving (steamship captain) (1816–1872), steamship captain from Scotland, active in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia William Irving (American politician)...
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William Moore (5 June 1825 – 29 March 1909) was a steamship captain, businessman, miner and explorer in British Columbia and Alaska. During most of British...
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James William Troup (February 5, 1855 – November 30, 1931) was an American steamship captain, Canadian Pacific Railway administrator and shipping pioneer...
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Samuel Cunard (section Steamships)
1831 to build the pioneering ocean steamship Royal William to run between Quebec and Halifax. Although Royal William ran into problems after losing an...
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1914: Captain Zimro Moore was in command of the SS Admiral Sampson, a U.S. cargo and passenger steamship, when it was rammed by the steamship, Princess...
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newly built railroad from Boston, in 1837. She was sold to the New Jersey Steamship Navigation and Transportation Company in December 1838 for around US$60...
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Capt, George T. Roberts (b. 1849) replaced Captain Ames, and George Lent, a partner in the Alaska Steamship Company, took over as engineer. Charles E....
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John Henry Bonser (1855-1913) was a steamship captain from Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of sternwheelers over...
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RMS Empress of Ireland (category Steamships of the United Kingdom)
the Clyde in Scotland. The liners were commissioned by Canadian Pacific Steamships or CPR for the North Atlantic route between Liverpool and Quebec City...
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the cereal of the same name Captain Gault, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson Captain Jonas Grumby, a.k.a. "The Skipper"...
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accusation at Captain Thomas Andersen: "You have sunk my ship!" Amongst the dead were the English dramatist and novelist Laurence Irving and his wife Mabel...
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in 1873 and Deighton returned to working the steamship that plied the Fraser River, this time as a captain of the steamer Onward. However, after a family...
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Brown Wilson Professor Henry Holmes Henry King The Impatient Years William Smith Irving Cummings Together Again Jonathan Crandall Sr Charles Vidor 1945 A...
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R.P. Rithet (sternwheeler) (category Steamships of Canada)
for Captain (sometimes called "Commodore") John Irving, one of the most famous steamboat captains in the history of British Columbia. The Irving family...
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Cowichan was a steamship which was operated in British Columbia under the ownership of the Union Steamship Company. Cowichan sank in 1925 following a...
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List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States (section William Henry Harrison)
found to be feigned) William Van Schaick – steamboat captain convicted for criminal negligence for the General Slocum steamship disaster of 1904, pardoned...
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home but it was Moodie's last trip as her captain before he transferred to steamships. He was replaced by Captain F. W. Moore.[citation needed] Life at Sea...
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Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland, which served in British Columbia. Camosun was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by...
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List of Park ships (category Steamships of Canada)
1944. Built for the Park Steamship Co., Montreal, she was operated under the management of Imperial Oil Ltd. Sold in 1947 to Irving Oil Ltd., Saint John and...
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Otter was the second steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, following her sister ship and twin, the much more famous Beaver....
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List of Empire ships (Si–Sy) (redirect from MV Irving Oak)
Ltd and renamed Fresno City. Sold in 1964 to Vergocean Steamship Co Ltd and renamed Sea Captain. Operated under the management of Vergottis Ltd, London...
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SS Catala (category Union Steamship Company of British Columbia)
Canadian coastal passenger and cargo steamship built in Scotland in 1925, for service with the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. In 1927 the...
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ships whose captains disobeyed the close-formation order survived, although they also hit the rocks. Earlier the same day, the mail steamship SS Cuba ran...
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Diplomaniacs (category Films directed by William A. Seiter)
in carrying out their mission, delayed by 8 months after the captain of their steamship gets drunk and steers wildly off course. In Europe, Winkelreid...
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Bowser, Dorman Pugh, Theodore Meekins, Lewis Wescott, Stanley Wise, and William Irving of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station, for rescue of the crew from the...
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SS Maloja (category Steamships of the United Kingdom)
SS Maloja was an M-class passenger steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was completed in 1911 and worked a regular route...
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Columbia, Canada from 1897 to 1919. She was a large freight and passenger steamship and the first in a series of CPR riverboats built for the Arrow Lakes...
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Flying Dutchman (sternwheeler) (redirect from Flying Dutchman (steamship))
The Flying Dutchman was a 19th-century steamship in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. It was the first steamboat to enter the Stikine River...
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