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Though a fast-disappearing breed by the 1920s, sailing ships were used commercially until the 1950s. They occupied a niche in the transport of low-value bulk cargoes of little interest to steamship companies, e.g., lumber, coal, guano or grain (60,000 sacks on Pamir [16]). Cargoes were carried from remote ports, with fuel and water unavailable ...
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Headquarters. Drogheda. Area served. Drogheda, Liverpool. The Drogheda Steam Packet Company was founded in 1826 as the Drogheda Paddle Steamship Co. It provided shipping services between Drogheda and Liverpool from 1825 to 1902, in which year it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. [1]
SS United States is a retired ocean liner built between 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines.She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds.
Siege of Drogheda (1641) The siege of Drogheda took place from 21 November 1641 to February 1642 during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. A Catholic force under Féilim Ó Néill laid siege to the town but failed to wrest the garrison from the Royalists. During the siege, the Irish rebels made three attempts to break into and capture the town.
At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor.
The siege of Drogheda took place from 3 to 11 September 1649, at the outset of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The coastal town of Drogheda was held by a mixed garrison of Irish Catholics and Royalists under the command of Sir Arthur Aston , when it was besieged by English Commonwealth forces under Oliver Cromwell .
August 11, 2024 at 2:20 PM. ‘Catfish’ host Nev Schulman ‘lucky to be here,’ revealing he broke his neck in bike accident. "Catfish" host and co-creator Nev Schulman is grateful to be alive ...
The Super C was an American high-speed intermodal freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1968 to 1976. Dubbed the " World's Fastest Freight Train ," the all-TOFC ( trailer-on-flatcar, or "piggyback") and COFC ( container -on-flatcar) train ran about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles ...