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  • Thumbnail for Cargo ship
    cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's...
    23 KB (2,620 words) - 00:44, 26 October 2024
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    the Mississippi River, to tugboats plying New York Harbor, to 300-metre (1,000 ft) oil tankers and container ships at major ports, to passenger-carrying...
    12 KB (1,340 words) - 20:11, 24 November 2024
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    modern luxurious facilities, and native English speakers. Steam ships plied between the coastal southern United States, Cuba, and Nassau, and the popularity...
    16 KB (1,447 words) - 15:37, 21 November 2024
  • was on board ships plying between England and Asia. The first few years were spent as surgeon aboard the Duke of Montrose sailing between Bombay and China...
    18 KB (1,733 words) - 17:05, 5 November 2024
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    Côn Sơn Island, which they named Pulo Condore as an entrepôt for ships plying between India and China. Three years later, on 2 March 1705, the Bugis mercenaries...
    17 KB (1,483 words) - 18:10, 10 November 2024
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    Prince Edward Island. Advertising touted "Plant Steamship Line — Ships ply between the ports of 3 great nations: United States (Port Tampa, Key West...
    23 KB (1,718 words) - 17:28, 15 November 2024
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    and container ships (14%). Ships are typically larger than boats, but there is no universally accepted distinction between the two. Ships generally can...
    110 KB (13,204 words) - 23:21, 23 November 2024
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    SS Wairarapa (category Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company)
    SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship of the late 19th century plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia. It came to tragic fame when...
    8 KB (808 words) - 04:15, 31 October 2024
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    or Nao Victoria (Spanish for "Victory") was a carrack famed as the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Victoria was part of the Spanish...
    21 KB (1,868 words) - 07:28, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bay Islands Department
    the neighborhood, the object of the whole being to intercept the ships plying between the kingdom of Guatemala and Cuba. It was reported that these freebooters...
    35 KB (3,419 words) - 05:28, 16 November 2024
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    MS Estonia (redirect from Estonia ship)
    use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Baltic Sea between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, was one of the...
    19 KB (1,620 words) - 03:29, 24 November 2024
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    cabins with the latest facilities. Because of the coal supply, small ships plied between Newcastle and Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, carrying...
    112 KB (10,867 words) - 23:36, 21 November 2024
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    sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged"...
    75 KB (7,913 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
  • documentary film about passengers on one of the British freight ships plying between the UK and the Caribbean, Banana Boat. Farrell wrote several books...
    5 KB (564 words) - 15:23, 26 August 2024
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    Clipper (redirect from Clipper ship)
    often paid to a fast sailing ship were not available (in a fluctuating market). The term "clipper" applied to vessels between these two categories. They...
    41 KB (5,076 words) - 21:29, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brazilian coastal defense ship Deodoro
    Boer War, suspected the ship of being a Boer-chartered privateer heading south to interfere with British merchant ships plying along the coast of southern...
    12 KB (1,000 words) - 07:07, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ships of the United States Army
    with a maximum speed of 8 knots. During the war these little ships plied back and forth between Navy PT boat bases, Crash Rescue Boat bases, and Engineer...
    100 KB (10,208 words) - 20:02, 29 October 2024
  • Cornwall, by Harvey & Co. She was launched in February 1858 as a packet ship and ferry for the Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company. Sleek and painted...
    9 KB (933 words) - 17:06, 25 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Maritime transport
    UNCTAD in 2020. Maritime transport can be realized over any distance by boat, ship, sailboat or barge, over oceans and lakes, through canals or along rivers...
    37 KB (3,112 words) - 16:46, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Great Eastern
    repairs, she plied for several years as a passenger liner between Britain and North America before being converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the...
    48 KB (6,148 words) - 23:32, 19 October 2024
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