A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more...
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The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body...
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Eastern Steamship Lines was a shipping company in the United States that operated from 1901 to 1955. It was created through successive mergers by Wall...
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Hempstead following their departure from the British-owned Elder Dempster Steamship Company. Waterman and associates started with just one ship, the Eastern...
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Canadian National Railway (redirect from Canadian National Steamship Company)
which operated under a branch of the company known as Canadian National Steamships, later CN Marine. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Wallsend, England...
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Cunard Line (redirect from Cunard Steamship Lines)
Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American...
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Sprague Energy (redirect from Sprague Steamship Company)
Sprague Steamship Company operated coal ships to supply coal to United States Armed Forces and the allied nations of the United States. Sprague Steamship Company...
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South Atlantic Steamship Company was the passenger and cargo founded in 1928 in Savannah, Georgia that ran the South Atlantic steamship Line. They started...
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The Steamship Pulaski disaster was the term given to the June 14, 1838, explosion on board the American steam packet Pulaski, which caused her to sink...
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newly built railroad from Boston, in 1837. She was sold to the New Jersey Steamship Navigation and Transportation Company in December 1838 for around US$60...
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