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HMS Stephen Furness
HMS ''Stephen Furness'' was a Royal Navy armed boarding steamer of the First World War. She was built as a passenger vessel for the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company (TTSSC) by Irvine's Shipbuilding & Drydock Company of West Hartlepool. She was named after TTSSC chairman Sir Stephen Furness, 1st Baronet and launched in 1910. She served on the Newcastle–London route until the First World War when she was acquired by the navy. She served on the route to Murmansk, Russia, but was sunk by a U-boat in 1917 while traversing the North Channel west of the Isle of Man. More than 100 men died in her sinking. Construction and commercial service The ''Stephen Furness'' was ordered by the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company (TTSSC) as a larger replacement for the ''New Londoner'', on the Newcastle-London passenger route. The larger capacity steamer ''Richard Welford'' had joined the ''New Londoner'' on the route a few years before and TTSSC were looking for a vessel of comparable size. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company
The Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company provided shipping services in the United Kingdom from 1904 to 1943. History Four companies came together in 1904 to form the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company. These were: *The Tyne Steam Shipping Co. Ltd, *The Tees Union Steamship Co. Ltd, *The Free Trade Wharf Co. Ltd * Furness Withy & Co. Ltd Passenger services were operated between Newcastle upon Tyne, London and the continent until the Great Depression in the United Kingdom. The vessels and interests of the company were purchased by Coast Lines in 1943. The former Headquarters building is now the Hotel du Vin. Routes : Passenger / Cargo and Cargo only Newcastle and Sunderland to London / Antwerp / Rotterdam / Amsterdam / Dordrecht / Hamburg / Bremen / Ghent / Northern French Ports. Middlesbrough to Bremen / Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grave Of Able Seaman W
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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