SS Lapland was a steam ocean liner built in Ireland for the Belgian Red Star Line, as Red Star's flagship, similar in appearance to the fellow liners SS...
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Sharpsteen Lapland Biosphere Reserve, a natural reserve in Murmansk Oblast Lapland War, a war between Finland and Nazi Germany in 1944–45 SS Lapland, a large...
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During World War II, the Lapland War (Finnish: Lapin sota; Swedish: Lapplandskriget; German: Lapplandkrieg) saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany...
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26 June 2015. Violet Jessop third from left; with fellow Titanic Stewardesses at Millbay Dock, Plymouth England after return on SS Lapland April 1912...
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SS Kroonland. Two months later, his pregnant wife Louise Labhaye Rousselle and his two-year-old daughter travelled to the U.S. aboard the SS Lapland (which...
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Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
214 surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line's steamer SS Lapland, where they were accommodated in passenger cabins. Carpathia was hurriedly...
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Star Line's SS Lapland, at a more economical 17,000 tons, was a virtual sister ship to the "Big Four" in her layout and dimensions. Lapland was also built...
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RMS Carpathia, Jewell returned to England on 29 April 1912 on board the SS Lapland. He was among the first witnesses interviewed by Lord Justice Mersey on...
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Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland in their honeymoon, 1920...
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stewardesses at Millbay Docks, Plymouth England after their return on the SS Lapland(*in PDF with zoom for explosion of photos for easier viewing) Titanic:...
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This included all official campaign shields except for the Warsaw and Lapland Shields. Re-designed to remove the swastika emblem, members of the Bundeswehr...
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Saperstejn and Tillie Krugman. In 1921, he emigrated with his family on the SS Lapland which sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, to the Port of New York. In 1930,...
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Sisu (film) (category Films set in Lapland)
Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo and Onni Tommila. Set during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany towards the end of World War II, a...
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The 6th SS Mountain Division Nord (German: 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord) was a World War II mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing...
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interested in their work, but they declined and took the more humble liner the SS Lapland. According to a biography by C. Howard Hopkins, in New York City the two...
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1908, scrapped 1940. SS Mercian, cargo ship for Furness Leyland Line, launched 16 April 1908, completed 16 May 1908. SS Lapland, passenger ship for Red...
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20th Mountain Army (Wehrmacht) (redirect from German Lapland Army)
The 20th Mountain Army, initially known as the Lapland Army, was a field army-level military formation of the German Army during World War II. The 20th...
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Jersey City, New Jersey on the 9th. It embarked on the Red Star Liner SS Lapland on 13 August for its trans-Atlantic crossing, reaching Liverpool, England...
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Henry Augustus Lukeman in his New York studio. In 1922, she sailed on the SS Lapland to Paris to study art, along the way completing a bas relief portrait...
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about a love affair between a Lapp midwife and a SS officer set against the backdrop of the Lapland War, which opposed Finnish and German armies in 1944–45...
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RMS Olympic (redirect from SS Olympic (1911))
the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the...
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Expeditionary Forces from Aug 1915-September 1916. He embarked Halifax SS Lapland April 24, 1916, and disembarked in Liverpool on May 5/16. He transferred...
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on 7 November 1914, embarked for Britain on 13 March 1916 aboard the SS Lapland and disembarked at Folkestone Harbour on 23 March 1916. The battalion...
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Finland in World War II (section Lapland War)
Axis Powers against the Soviets, in 1941–1944. The third conflict, the Lapland War against Germany in 1944–1945, followed the signing of the Moscow Armistice...
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moved out of Charlottetown, on the "SS Northumberland" to Pictou, NS and Halifax. It soon embarked on the "SS Lapland" sailing on 28 November, it arrived...
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Though acquitted of deliberate scorched earth tactics in Finland during the Lapland War, he was convicted of killing hostages in Yugoslavia at the Hostages...
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The SS Ski Jäger Battalion "Norway" (Norwegian: SS-Skijegerbataljon "Norge", German: Freiwilligen-Schikompanie-Norwegen) was a combat battalion unit within...
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Battle of Olhava (category Battles of the Lapland War)
The Battle of Olhava occurred during the Lapland War on 28 September 1944. A brief armed struggle occurred in Northern Finland between retreating German...
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(aka the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps). He traveled to England on the SS Lapland, arriving in September 1917. After the United States entered the war,...
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