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    SS Florizel, a passenger liner, was the flagship of the Bowring Brothers' Red Cross Line of steamships and one of the first ships in the world specifically...
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  • Florizel (1768–1791) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Florizel (The Winter's Tale), a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale SS Florizel...
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    the command of Captain Abram Kean. Stephano was the sister ship to the SS Florizel. Stephano served in Bowring Brothers' Red Cross Line as a passenger steamer...
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    managing director of Bowring Brothers, but died in the wreck of the SS Florizel in 1918, along with his three-year-old daughter, Betty. Munn had also...
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    Broken up in Messina SS Florizel a passenger ship commissioned in 1909 and sank off of St. John's, Newfoundland. SS Empire Florizel (169503) was a short...
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  • Empire Florizel was a 7,056 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1943 by Lithgows, Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport...
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    Munn, who had died aged three on 23 February 1918 in the sinking of SS Florizel. Sefton Park, in Liverpool, unveiled in June 1928, with the participation...
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  • Shipwreck London, Ontario 174 1914 SS Southern Cross Shipwreck Off the coast of Newfoundland 173 1918 SS Florizel Shipwreck Cappahayden, Newfoundland...
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  • 7 British and 1 Australian). SS Florizel, another Red Cross Line ship wrecked during wartime Dziadyk, William (2021). S.S. Nerissa, the Final Crossing...
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  • Just south of Cappahayden is the site of the tragic sinking of the SS Florizel at Horn Head Point (46°50′56″N 52°56′20″W / 46.84889°N 52.93889°W...
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    North Sydney to Bell Island. She also assisted at the disaster of the SS Florizel in February 1918. In 1942, Terra Nova was chartered by Newfoundland Base...
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    Line of steamships around Newfoundland and Labrador. In particular, SS Florizel was one of the first passenger ships in the world specifically designed...
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  • Montreal, Quebec Central Canada 53+ 1918 February 24 Sinking of the SS Florizel Shipwreck near Cappahayden, Newfoundland Atlantic Canada 94 1918 March...
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  • mascot to the WW1 Newfoundland Regiment before leaving St. John's on the SS Florizel. Multi-generations of Oke families resided in St. John's connected to...
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  • received the distress signal from the SS Florizel, which had run aground near Cappahayden. The message read "S.O.S. Florizel ashore near Cape Race. Fast going...
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    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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  • an F4 on the Fujita damage scale. Head On – On 23 February 1918, the SS Florizel, carrying 78 passengers and a crew of 60, set out amidst poor weather...
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    presented officially on 1 Oct 1914, before troops left St. John's on the SS Florizel, by James R. Stick of the Royal Stores, Ltd, father of Leonard Stick...
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    Shannon Munn, and step-grandchild, Betty Munn, died in the wreck of the SS Florizel in 1918, and in her memory he had a statue of Peter Pan erected in the...
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    during the month of September 1914, before troops left St. John's on the SS Florizel. In addition, the men practiced skirmishes in an area just east of Quidi...
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    tugs to clear the Kill Van Kull, personally hired icebreaking steamer SS Florizel and guaranteed its insurance risks out of his own pocket. On June 1,...
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  • SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. During the Second World...
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    February 2012. Parks Canada Agency, Government of Canada (2020-10-22). "S.S. Klondike - S.S. Klondike National Historic Site". www.pc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-20...
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    until the Nickel closed in 1960. He was one of the few survivors of the SS Florizel disaster, and in later years owned and operated other movie theatres...
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    SS Tuscania was a luxury liner of the Anchor Line, a subsidiary of the Cunard Line and named after Tuscania, Italy. In 1918 the ship was torpedoed and...
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  • in Newfoundland business circles until his death in the wreck of the SS Florizel in 1918. In 2016, John Munn was named a National Historic Person. John...
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  • history, wireless communication and Guglielmo Marconi, the tragedy of the S.S. Florizel and other shipwrecks and maritime artifacts Banting Interpretation Center...
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  • eldest brother, had captained the SS Florizel, but on February 23, 1918 he was on board as a passenger when the Florizel struck a reef in a heavy sea and...
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    SS Willem III was the lead ship of the Willem III class, and the first ship of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (SMN). She was burnt on her maiden...
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  • SS Stephen Hopkins was a United States Merchant Marine Liberty ship that served in World War II. She was the only US merchant vessel to sink a German surface...
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