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List Of Empire Ships (Si–Sy)
Suffix beginning with e ''Empire Sidney'' ''Empire Sidney'' was a cargo ship which was built by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. Launched on 4 September 1941 and completed in May 1942. Allocated in 1943 to the Dutch government and renamed ''Van der Helst''. Sold in 1946 to Koninklijke Java-China-Japan Lijn, Netherlands and renamed ''Tjimenteng''. Sold in 1963 to Diamandis Eikidi Naftiliaki Eteria and renamed ''Diamandis''. Operated under the management of A Halcoussis & Co, Greece. Arrived on 20 January 1970 at Cartagena, Spain for scrapping. ''Empire Silas'' ''Empire Silas'' was a tug which was built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby. Launched on 13 December 1943 and completed in April 1944. Sold in 1946 to Fairplay Towing & Shipping Co Ltd, London and renamed ''Fairplay Two''. Capsized on 22 June 1947 and sank off Vlissingen, Netherlands when towing . Refloated on 13 August 1947 and towed to Antwerp, Belgium. Declared a constructive total loss but repaired. Sold in 1948 to Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Sidney
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, there is non-equivalence between different populations who have different sets of rights and are governed differently. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being examples). There have been "ancient and modern, centralized and decentralized, ultra-brutal and relatively benign" Empires. An important distinction has been between land empires mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
