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Steam (c.1996–) Speed. 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) Capacity. 100 passengers. SS Oster is a Norwegian steamship built in 1908 by Christianssands Mekaniske Værksted for the Indre Nordhordlandske Dampskibsselskab to provide a combined passenger and cargo service between Bergen and Osterfjorden in Norway.
Trunk (luggage) A large trunk with leather handles. A trunk, also known as a travel trunk, is a large cuboid container designed to hold clothes and other personal belongings. They are most commonly used for extended periods away from home, such as for boarding school, or long trips abroad. Trunks are differentiated from chests by their more ...
Planter. (1862) Steamer Planter loaded with 1,000 bales of cotton at Georgetown, South Carolina. Ca 1860–61 or 1866–76. USS Planter was a steamer taken over by Robert Smalls, a Southern slave and ship's pilot who steered the ship past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to Union Navy forces on 13 May 1862 during the American Civil War ...
Construction and specifications. The Far West was built in Pittsburgh in 1870 for the Coulson Packet Company. The Far West was 190 ft (58 m) long with a beam of 33 ft (10 m) and had three decks, a cupola like pilot house and two tall smoke stacks. [1] [4] : 27–8 She drew only 20 in (51 cm) of water unloaded and 30 in (76 cm) fully loaded with ...
A “bartender’s handshake” is a drink order that signals to your bartender a few things: 1. You’re (likely) not a jerk, and 2. You might also be a bartender, or 3. You’re about to become ...
Being at the right place at the right time is a big part of helping reunite a lost pet with their owner, but it also takes some effort from the owner. She was smart to include a recent photo of ...
The steamboat Ticonderoga is one of two remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamers with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America's bays, lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the ...
Russia's Defense Minister ordered officials to prepare a “response” to U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea, the ministry said Friday, in an apparent warning that Moscow may take forceful ...