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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.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was established to carry US mail on the Pacific leg of a transcontinental route via Panama. The federal government discussed the possibility of creating subsidies for a private shipping company, similar to the model already established in Britain for the Cunard Line and the British Mail Steam Packet Company.
USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a training ship used by the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally named Seeandbee and was built as a Great Lakes luxury side-wheel steamer cruise ship for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company. Seeandbee was launched on 9 November 1912 and was normally used on the Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo ...
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 ...
With flooding having already taken their home, the Barnes family is hoping the possible collapse of the Rapidan Dam doesn't also take their café, which has been operating since 1910.
July 24, 2024 at 4:04 AM. Dramatic video shows whale capsizing boat off New Hampshire. Two boaters escaped with their lives off New Hampshire after a whale breached and capsized their vessel in a ...
SS Storskär. SS. Storskär. Storskär (literally Big Skerry) is a steamship that was built in 1908 in Gothenburg. She was originally named Strängnäs Express and traded between Stockholm and Strängnäs on Lake Malaren. She was transferred to service on the Stockholm archipelago in 1939, and given her current name in the following year.
Tom Schad, USA TODAY. August 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM. PARIS — Jordan Chiles might have to return her bronze medal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Saturday that the judging panel at the ...