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    SS Akaroa was a UK steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1914 in Ireland as Euripides for Aberdeen Line. When new, she was...
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  • sank in 1969 SS Akaroa (1914) 1914 Euripides (1914-1932) Scrapped in 1954 SS Alaska (1881) 1881 Magallanes (1897-1902) Scrapped in 1902 SS Albania (1920)...
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    SS Prinz Adalbert was a twin-screw cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1902 for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1914 the United Kingdom Admiralty...
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  • Aberdeen Line, launched 29 January 1914, completed 6 June 1914, maiden voyage 1 July 1914, renamed Akaroa 1932, scrapped 1954. SS Mississippi, passenger ship...
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    Nganhwei Province, China. The British passenger ship Euripides, later renamed Akaroa, was launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast. U.S. President...
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    Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, ISBN 0-87021-907-3, p. 269. "SS Baron Gautsch [+1914]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved August 5, 2023. Il Santuario Di N S...
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  • plaque Illustration of the SS Tararua wreck SS Wairarapa wreck Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption Clipper ship Fiery Star SS Penguin Wreck of the General...
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    Islands to Bluff. It also reached Westport on the West Coast at 2:30 pm. At Akaroa and Gisborne the wave was in the 2–3-metre range. The waves at Port Charles...
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    Zealand, opened in Kororareka. 18 August: French colony established in Akaroa. Hobson becomes first governor and sets up executive and legislative councils...
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    1959–68 20,348 Transferred to Shaw, Savill and Albion Line and renamed Akaroa. Aragon 1959–69 20,348 Transferred to Shaw, Savill and Albion and renamed...
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    PENINSULA built by Grangemouth Dockyard Company in 1889 for Peninsula & Akaroa Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Lyttelton, Passenger / Cargo". www.clydeships...
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    SM U-28 (Germany) (category U-boats commissioned in 1914)
    126 GRT. U-28 was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 26 June 1914, with Freiherr Georg-Günther von Forstner (1882-1940) in command. Commander...
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    as the 'Surveyors' Arms' on what is now Beach Street and was licensed by Akaroa-based magistrate John Watson in 1846. On 23 February 1846 the ship Mary...
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  • the South and stormed the kāinga (unfortified village) of Takapūneke at Akaroa Harbour and took the paramount chief, Tama-i-hara-nui, hostage. A year later...
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  • ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1917. "Akaroa". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2012. "Amiral Olry". Uboat.net. Retrieved...
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  • the squad returned home sailing from Auckland on 18 August aboard the SS Akaroa and arriving in Southampton on 17 September 1936. The first Ashes test...
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