• SS Viking was a wooden-hulled sealing ship made famous by its role in the 1931 film The Viking. During her use in the seal hunt in Newfoundland, the ship...
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  • SS Viking may refer to: SS Viking (1881), a sailing ship SS Viking (1905), a steamship Empire Viking, several Empire Ships named Viking, see List of Empire...
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  • up Viking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians. Viking or Vikings may also refer to: Viking (comics) Vikings #1...
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    Ab Vikinglinjen, purchased a steam-powered car-ferry SS Dinard from the UK, renamed her SS Viking and began service on the route Korpo (Finland)–Mariehamn...
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  • magnetic wire recording. It is best known for the explosion aboard the ship SS Viking (an actual sealing ship) during filming, in which many members of the...
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    SS (RMS) Viking was a steel, triple-screw turbine-driven passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1905 and 1954. Viking...
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    children fled from Gdańsk in 1949, aboard a Swedish coal freighter, the SS Viking. From Sweden, emigrated to the United States with the assistance of Mikołajczyk...
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  • 667 and abandoned. Torpedoed on 24 January 1943 and sunk by U-105. Empire Viking I was a 250 GRT whaler which was built by Smiths Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough...
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  • from Paramount Pictures, The Viking, directed by Varick Frissell, a New York filmmaker. The movie was shot aboard the SS Viking, and it was to feature the...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...
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  • death in an explosion, along with 26 other crew members, on board the SS Viking; the film, shot on location in Newfoundland by George Melford and Frissell...
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    HMS Vindex (1915) (redirect from TSS Viking)
    carrier during the First World War, converted from the fast passenger ship SS Viking. The ship spent the bulk of her career operating the North Sea, where...
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    Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail...
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  • Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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    Waffen-SS, in units of the SS Division Wiking. Most of these volunteers served as motorized infantry in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German:...
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    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. The Vikings compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member...
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    SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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    Year Title Role Notes 1954 Them! Radio Man on the SS Viking Uncredited 1955 Six Bridges to Cross Andy Norris 1955 Big House, U.S.A. Tommy, Accomplice...
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    The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking (German: 5. SS-Panzerdivision Wiking) or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the...
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  • Viking Line initially had three ships, Ålandsfärjan Ab's SS Ålandsfärjan, Vikinglinjen's SS Viking and Slite's Apollo. Since the name of the marketing company...
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    vessels were superseded by turbine steamers, the first being the 1905 SS Viking. The company then replaced the passenger-only steamers with side-loading...
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    sealing season of 1933, Sagona helped in the rescue of survivors of the SS Viking disaster in March of that year. In the map published with the Newfoundland...
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    The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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    Labrador ice floes. Within days, Frissell with his crew had joined the SS Viking for its annual seal hunt. The ship got trapped in ice near the Horse Islands...
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    United States, Henry Billings, The Viking Press (1953) Braynard, Frank O. (2011) [1981]. The big ship : the story of the S.S. United States (New ed.). New...
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    The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (German: 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division primarily...
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  • Peninsula, Newfoundland Atlantic Canada 27-28 1931 March 15 Explosion of the SS Viking Shipwreck/Explosion near Horse Islands, Newfoundland Atlantic Canada 27...
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  • Wiking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wiking or Wikings, German for Viking, may refer to: Wiking (horse), an Arabian racehorse Blohm & Voss BV 222...
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  • All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally...
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    bridgehead, and was joined within a week by the 198th Infantry Division and SS Viking Division.[citation needed] The heavy counterattacks of the Red Army on...
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