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William McMaster Murdoch
William McMaster Murdoch, RNR (28 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor, who was the First Officer on the . He was the officer in charge on the bridge when the ship collided with an iceberg, and was one of the more than 1,500 people who died when the ship sank. Life and career Murdoch was born in Dalbeattie in Kirkcudbrightshire (now Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland, the fourth son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, a master mariner, and Jane Muirhead, six of whose children survived infancy. The Murdochs were a long and notable line of Scottish seafarers; his father and grandfather were both sea captains as were four of his grandfather's brothers. Murdoch was educated first at the old Primary School in High Street, and then at the Dalbeattie High School in Alpine Street until he gained his diploma in 1887. Finishing schooling, he followed in the family seafaring tradition and was apprenticed for five years to ''William Joyce & Coy'', Liverpool, but after four y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve, they form the Maritime Reserve. The present RNR was formed by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve, created in 1859, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR), created in 1903. The Royal Naval Reserve has seen action in World War I, World War II, the Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. History Establishment The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) has its origins in the Register of Seamen, established in 1835 to identify men for naval service in the event of war, although just 400 volunteered for duty in the Crimean War in 1854 out of 250,000 on the Register. This led to a Royal Commission on Manning the Navy in 1858, which in turn led to the Naval Reserve Act of 1859. This established the RNR as a reserve of professional seamen from the British Merchant Navy and fishing fleets, who could be called upon during times of war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Adriatic (1906)
RMS ''Adriatic'' was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line. She was the fourth of a quartet of ships of more than , dubbed The Big Four. The ship was the only one of the four which was never the world's largest ship. However, she was the largest, the fastest, and the most luxurious of the Big Four, being the first ocean liner to have an indoor swimming pool and a Turkish bath. She began her career on the brand new route from Southampton to New York before joining, from 1911, her sister ships on the secondary route from Liverpool. They were in fact slow liners intended to provide a service at moderate prices. When World War I broke out, the ''Adriatic'' was among the ships that continued their civilian transatlantic service, while carrying many provisions. In 1917, she was requisitioned and served as a troop transport. After the war, she was refitted several times, and was gradually used for cruises, which became her main services in the 1930s. When Cunard Line and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Cedric
RMS ''Cedric'' was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. She was the second of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed the Big Four, and was the largest vessel in the world at the time of her entering service. Her career, peppered with collisions and minor incidents, took place mainly on the route from Liverpool to New York. Requisitioned as an auxiliary cruiser during World War I, ''Cedric'' carried out patrol missions until 1916. Her large size being a handicap in this function, she was then transformed into a troop transport and transported soldiers from Egypt and Palestine, then from the United States in the direction of the European fronts. She then resumed civilian service in 1919. During the 1920s, ''Cedric'' faced competition from increasingly modern ships. After having been refitted several times to adapt to new clienteles, she was withdrawn from service in 1931 and scrapped the following year. History Construction and early career At the end of the nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Oceanic (1899)
RMS ''Oceanic'' was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. At the outbreak of World War I she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. On 8 August 1914 she was commissioned into Royal Navy service. On 25 August 1914, the newly designated HMS ''Oceanic'' departed Southampton to patrol the waters from the North Scottish mainland to Faroe. On 8 September she ran aground and was wrecked off the island of Foula, in the Shetland Islands. Background In the late 1890s the White Star Line's existing prestige liners ''Majestic'' and ''Teutonic'', both launched in 1889, had become outmoded due to rapid advances in marine technology: Their competitors the Cunard Line had introduced the ''Campania'' and ''Lucania'' in 1893, and from 1897 the German Norddeutscher Lloyd began introducing four new Kaiser-class ocean liners which included the SS ''Kaiser Wilh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Germanic (1874)
SS ''Germanic'' was an ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff in 1874 and operated by the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of '' Britannic'', serving with the White Star Line until 1904. She later operated under the name ''Ottawa'' until 1910. After passing into Turkish ownership she operated under the names ''Gul Djemal'' and ''Gülcemal'', until broken up in 1950 after a total career of 75 years. Design and construction In her original design, ''Germanic'' was nearly identical to her earlier sister ''Britannic'', and details about the technical features and facilities of the two ships can be found on the Britannic article. ''Germanic'' was originally intended to be fitted with the same experimental adjustable propeller system as her sister, however as this proved to be unsuccessful in service on her sister, it was removed during construction, and ''Germanic'' was instead fitted with a conventional fixed propeller arrangement. ''Germanic'' was built at Harland and Wolff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Celtic (1901)
RMS ''Celtic'' was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than by gross register tonnage (it was also longer), ''Celtic'' was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, the dubbed The Big Four.* She was the last ship ordered by Thomas Henry Ismay before his death in 1899. The second liner of her name ( the first was completed in 1872) she was put into service in 1901. Her large size (she could carry nearly 3,000 passengers) and her low but economical speed (, while her contemporary liners then sailed on average at ) inaugurated a new company policy aiming to favour size, luxury and comfort, to the detriment of speed. Assigned to the route between Liverpool and New York, ''Celtic'' experimented with a mode of slower than usual rotations, but was also used for a long cruise in 1902 which met with some success. In 1907, she was briefly used for the American Line on the Southampton route, before White Star set up its own fast service on thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Arabic (1902)
SS ''Arabic'' was a British-registered ocean liner that entered service in 1903 for the White Star Line. She was sunk on 19 August 1915, during the First World War, by German submarine , south of Kinsale, causing a diplomatic incident. Construction ''Arabic'' was originally intended to be ''Minnewaska'', one of four ships ordered from Harland and Wolff, Belfast, by the Atlantic Transport Line (ATL), but fell victim to the recession and the shipbuilding rationalization following the ATL's 1902 incorporation into the International Mercantile Marine Company, and was transferred before completion to the White Star Line as ''Arabic''. She was extensively modified before launch with additional accommodation which extended her superstructure aft of her third mast and forward of her second mast. She had accommodations for 1,400 Passengers; 200 in First Class, 200 in Second Class and 1,000 in Third Class. Her accommodations were configured similar to most other White Star passenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Runic (1900)
The SS ''Runic'' was a steamship built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1901. ''Runic'' was the fourth of five s built for White Star's Australia service along with her sister ship , where she ran on the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. She served this route until she was requisitioned for use as a war transport between 1915 and 1919, before returning to the Australia service. She was the second White Star ship to be named ''Runic'', an earlier ship of that name had served the company between 1889 and 1895. In 1930 ''Runic'' was sold and converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed ''New Sevilla'', she remained in service in this role until September 1940 when she was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast with the loss of two lives. Design and construction When White Star inaugurated service from Liverpool, England to Sydney, Australia in the late 1890s, they commissioned five steamships to be built for that route:&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lightoller
Charles Herbert Lightoller, (30 March 1874 – 8 December 1952) was a British mariner and naval officer. He was the second officer on board the and the most senior member of the crew to survive the ''Titanic'' disaster. As the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, Lightoller strictly enforced the women and children only protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and was twice decorated for gallantry. During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, named the ''Sundowner'' and sailed her as one of the " little ships" that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Early life Charles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, Lancashire, on 30 March 1874, into a family that had operated cotton-spinning mills in Lancashire since the late 18th century. His mother, Sarah J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Medic
SS ''Medic'' was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1899. ''Medic'' was one of five s (the others being the , , and ) built specifically to service the Liverpool– Cape Town– Sydney route. The ship's name pertained to the ancient Persian region of Media and was pronounced ''Mee-dic''. ''Medic'' was the second Jubilee-class ship to be built for the Australia service. Like her sisters she was a single funnel liner, measuring just under , which had capacity for 320 passengers in third class on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat. After a long career with White Star, ''Medic'' was sold in 1928 and was converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed ''Hektoria'', she remained in service in this role until being torpedoed and sunk during World War II in the Atlantic Ocean whilst sailing in a conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officer
An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization. The term derives from Old French ''oficier'' "officer, official" (early 14c., Modern French ''officier''), from Medieval Latin ''officiarius'' "an officer," from Latin ''officium'' "a service, a duty" the late Latin from ''officiarius'', meaning "official." Examples Ceremonial and other contexts *Officer, and/or Grand Officer, are both a grade, class, or rank of within certain chivalric orders and orders of merit, e.g. Legion of Honour (France), Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Holy See), Order of the British Empire ( UK), Order of Leopold (Belgium) * Great Officer of State * Merchant marine officer or licensed mariner * Officer of arms *Officer in The Salvation Army, and other state decorations Corporations *Bank officer *Corporate officer, a corporate title **Chief executive officer (CEO) **Chief financial officer (CFO) **Chief operating officer (COO) *Executive officer Education *Chief acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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