List Of Ships Named Oronsay

	List Of Ships Named Oronsay This is a list of ships named ''Oronsay'': * (renamed ''Hainaut'' after 1900) 2,070 GRT steamship wrecked off Skyros in 1911 * 3,761 GRT cargo ship, torpedoed off Malta in 1916 * Orient Line liner and troopship torpedoed off Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ... in 1942 * Orient Line (later P&O) liner and cruise ship, broken-up in 1975 See also * Oronsay (other) * List of islands called Oronsay References {{DEFAULTSORT:Oronsay Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Skyros Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros. At it is the largest island of the Sporades, and has a population of about 3,000 (in 2011). It is part of the regional unit of Euboea. The Hellenic Air Force has a major base in Skyros, because of the island's strategic location in the middle of the Aegean. Municipality The municipality Skyros is part of the regional unit of Euboea. Apart from the island Skyros, it consists of the small inhabited island of Skyropoula and a few smaller uninhabited islands. The total area of the municipality is . Geography The north of the island is covered by a forest, while the south, dominated by the highest mountain, called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies south of Sicily (Italy), east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese and English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of St. John, French, and British, amongst others. With a population of about 516,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country in area and fourth most densely populated sovereign cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Troopship A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable land troops directly on shore, typically loading and unloading at a seaport or onto smaller vessels, either tenders or barges. Attack transports, a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore, carry their own fleet of landing craft. Landing ships beach themselves and bring their troops directly ashore. History Ships to transport troops were used in Antiquity. Ancient Rome used the navis lusoria, a small vessel powered by rowers and sail, to move soldiers on the Rhine and Danube. The modern troopship has as long a history as passenger ships do, as most maritime nations enlisted their support in military operations (either by leasing the vessels or by impressing them into service) when their normal naval forces were deemed insufficient fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5 million and covers an area of . English is the official language, but over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, reflecting the country's ethnic and cultural diversity. The country's capital and largest city is Monrovia. Liberia began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which believed black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States. Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born black people who faced social and legal oppression in the U.S., along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia. Gradually developing an Americo- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oronsay (other) Oronsay commonly refers to the island of Oronsay, Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Oronsay may also refer to Scottish islands * Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, Skye * Oronsay, Loch Sunart * Oronsay, Outer Hebrides, off North Uist Ships * List of ships named Oronsay See also List of islands called Oronsay This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: '), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It is one of the more common names for Scottish islands. The names come from ''Örfirisey'' which transla ... , including similarly named islands {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Islands Called Oronsay This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: '), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It is one of the more common names for Scottish islands. The names come from ''Örfirisey'' which translates from Old Norse as "tidal" or "ebb island".Watson (2004) p. 505. The many islands include: Inner Hebrides * Eilean Ornsay, off Coll * Oronsay, Colonsay Ornsay, by Isleornsay (Eilean Iarmain), Sound of Sleat Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, Skye * Oronsay, Loch Sunart (enclosing Loch Drumbuie), Morvern Outer Hebrides Lewis * Orasaigh off Leurbost () * Eilean Orasaigh near Cromor () North Uist * Orasaigh () N of Vallay * Oronsay, Outer Hebrides () by the hamlet of Greinetobht (approx 85 ha; 25 m) * Orasaigh () head of Loch Euphort * Orasaigh () Loch Amhlasaraigh (west of Tobha Beag) * Orasaigh () Sound of Harris, by the hamlet of Bagh a Chaise Benbecula * Orasaigh Uisgeabhagh () * Orasaigh () Loch Uisgebhagh * Orasaigh () N of Meanais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]