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    Cleopatra was a "cylinder ship" built to take Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London in 1877. The obelisk weighed more than 200 tons. It was encased...
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  • Cleopatra (cylinder ship), a vessel constructed to convey Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London in 1877 SS Mohegan, originally named Cleopatra...
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    SS Dessoug (category Ships built in Pennsylvania)
    between New York and Savannah until she was scrapped in 1890. Cleopatra (cylinder ship) Cleopatra's Needle (London) Egyptian obelisks (including others moved...
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    Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria...
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    galleries. Boats were carried both amidships and at the stern. Cleopatra flew a barque or ship rig of sail on three masts, including studding sails on fore...
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  • Caesareum of Alexandria, now known as Cleopatra's Needles. The fallen one was taken to London by the cylinder ship Cleopatra in 1877. Four years later, the standing...
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  • cylinder was added for the Cornus-class corvettes HMS Curacoa (1878), HMS Cleopatra (1878) and HMS Conquest (1878), in which a high-pressure cylinder...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1877 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1877. "Launch". Glasgow Herald. No. 11552. Glasgow. 2 January...
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    Comus-class corvette (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
    instead of the ship rig of the first six ships. The compound engines in the new batch were of 4-cylinder type, with two high-pressure cylinders of 36 inches...
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  • Molène was a French transport ship which was built German fishing trawler Köln in 1937. She was requisitoned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World...
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