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    Storstad was a steam cargo ship built in 1910 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd of Newcastle for A. F. Klaveness & Co of Sandefjord, Norway. The ship was...
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  • ship sank in Canada's Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the SS Storstad, a Norwegian coal freighter with an ice-breaking bow. The accident occurred...
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    in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Although the ship was equipped with...
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    In 1914, the Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River. The Empress sank in just 14 minutes and...
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    mail, and would revert at other times to a standard designation such as "SS". Originally, the British Admiralty operated these ships. The designation...
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    of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the SS Storstad. 1,012 people died. Among the other sinkings are the torpedo sinking...
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    British ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland collided in thick fog with the SS Storstad, a Norwegian collier, near the mouth of Saint Lawrence River in Canada...
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  • Empress of Ireland, sank after a collision with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad. On 29 May 1914, the Empress (operated by the CPR's Canadian Pacific...
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  • SS Storstad, and sank on May 29, 1914 RMS Empress of Japan 1890 Scrapped in 1926 RMS Empress of Russia 1912 Scrapped in 1945 - Barrow-in-Furness SS Espagne...
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    ocean liner Empress of Ireland which sank in May, took possession of SS Storstad, the vessel that collided with the "Empress", and then sold it for $175...
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    liner which, surrounded by fog, had been hit by Norwegian coal freighter SS Storstad. "May have struck ship... listing terribly" reported Marconi operators...
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    lost the liner RMS Empress of Ireland in a collision with the collier Storstad, and 1,024 people were killed. Canadian Pacific chartered Virginian from...
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    The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland collided with Norwegian collier SS Storstad and sank in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with 1,012 out of the 1,477 passengers...
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    May 1914 that saw it sink after a collision with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad. The Wall of Service commemorates Pier 21 as the departure point for...
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    between the ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland and the Norwegian collier SS Storstad that resulted in the liner sinking began in Quebec City. The inquiry...
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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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    SS Orsova was a steam ocean liner owned by the Orient Steam Navigation Company. She was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland in 1909 to...
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    SS Ypiranga was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1908 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1919 the United Kingdom seized her for World...
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    SS Healdton was an oil tanker that was launched in Scotland in 1908 as Purelight. In 1916 the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey acquired her and renamed...
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    SS Monroe was an Old Dominion Steamship Company steamship launched 18 October 1902 and completed 3 April 1903 by Newport News Shipbuilding of Norfolk,...
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    SS Deutschland was a passenger liner built in Stettin and launched on 10 January 1900 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) of Germany. She was officially...
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  • aboard Empress of Ireland when she collided with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River. This disaster was considered the worst peacetime...
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    2 Apr: Bellubera 21 Apr: Ypiranga (incident) 22 Apr: HMS Isis 29 May: Storstad 8 Jun: Victoria Luise 18 Jun: Bülow 27 Jun: California 1 Jul: Andrei Pervozvanny...
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  • Code Letters RSMN were allocated. On 1 May 1914, Dollart struck the wreck of SS Werner in the River Elbe at Glückstadt and sank with the loss of two crew...
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    SS California was a twin-screw steamer that D. and W. Henderson and Company of Glasgow built for the Anchor Line in 1907 as a replacement for the aging...
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    SS Otaki was a New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1908 and sunk by a German merchant raider in 1917...
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  • SS Sagamore was a transatlantic cargo liner that was built in Ireland in 1892 for George Warren's White Diamond Steam Ship Company. In 1913 she was modified...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Vigilancia
    SS Vigilancia was a merchant steamship that was built in Pennsylvania in 1890. She sailed between New York and Brazil via the West Indies until 1893, when...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Nyassa
    SS Nyassa was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Germany in 1906 as Bülow for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). In 1916 Portugal seized her, renamed her...
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    SS Ultonia was a British passenger-cargo vessel built in 1898 in Wallsend-on-Tyne by C. S. Swan & Hunter. It was sunk by a German torpedo in 1917. SS...
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