of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn. Peking was launched in February 1911 and left...
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People's Republic of China. Peking may also refer to: Peking (ship), a 1911 German square-rigged sailing ship launched 2045 Peking, an asteroid named for the...
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Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian cave site in modern northern China during the Chibanian...
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The Peking Plan (or Operation Peking) was an operation in which three destroyers of the Polish Navy, the Burza, Błyskawica, and Grom, were evacuated to...
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Arethusa (category Ship disambiguation pages)
(1932–1975), formerly Peking (ship) Arethusa III, a much smaller ketch used as a training ship French ship Aréthuse, various ships of the French Navy USS Arethusa...
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SS City of Peking was an iron-hulled steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania for the Pacific...
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Flying P-Liner (category Tall ships of Germany)
today: Pommern is a museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland. Peking is a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany. Passat is a museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde...
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Remaining iron or steel-hulled ships include: Balclutha Elissa Falls of Clyde Glenlee Kruzenshtern Moshulu Passat Peking Pommern STS Sedov Star of India...
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450 m2 (26,400 sq ft) Crew: 26 af Chapman (ship) Kruzenshtern (ship) Moshulu Passat (ship) Pamir (ship) Peking (ship) "Casualty Reports". The Times. No. 47003...
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true sister ship is the Peking. The Pamir has often been, and is still discussed as Passat's sister ship because both ships were owned and operated by...
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The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold...
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A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially...
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is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include...
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Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup,...
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The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500...
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Murder of Pamela Werner (section Midnight in Peking)
revived with the 2011 publication of Paul French's bestseller Midnight in Peking, which endorsed Werner's conclusions and won several awards. However, a...
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Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa (section Training ships)
In 2006, the charity renamed itself Shaftesbury Young People. Peking (ship) "Training Ship Arethusa". Frindsbury Extra Parish Council. Retrieved 21 January...
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square rigger". Lübeck Travemünde. Retrieved 25 September 2016. "Museum Ship Peking - The new flagship of Hamburg's Deutsches Hafenmuseum". hamburg.com....
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Holy Ship! is an annual electronic dance music (EDM) festival previously held aboard a 4,000+ capacity cruise ship, with two back to back sailings leaving...
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1927 (1st) 1 1 Sadie Thompson 1928 (1st) 0 2 The Crowd 1928 (1st) 0 2 A Ship Comes In 1928 (1st) 0 1 Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness 1927 (1st) 0 1 Glorious...
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Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship Euterpe. After a career sailing from Great Britain...
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last of the P-Liners, Padua was commissioned as a cargo ship, used among other things to ship construction material to Chile, South America, returning...
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of Peking, though British royal and German peer families were relative by marriage then. Gottschall, p. 135 naval nomenclature designated eight-ship units...
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USS Constitution (redirect from Ship Constitution)
designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard...
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Kyrenia is a 4th-century BC ancient Greek merchant ship that sank c. 294 BC. Kyrenia's wreck was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas...
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Cutty Sark (redirect from Cutty Sark (ship))
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last...
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Prince Gong stayed to conduct the negotiations, signing the Convention of Peking with the alliance on 24 October 1860, thus ratifying the Treaty of Tientsin...
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Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. It is displayed at the Viking Ship Museum...
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only ‘P’ Liner still under sail), the Peking and the Pommern. Pamir's last voyage was the only one in her school ship career during which she made a profit...
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Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. She was designated a U.S...
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