... Launched 5 January 1907 at the yard of the Detroit Ship Building Company at Wyandotte, she caught fire there while being fitted ... Cleveland, under construction at the plant of the Detroit Ship Building company, for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company, and ...
... the Atlantic and back.
[You're confusing this ship with the first Miantonomoh . - Dave]
In and Out of Service USS Miantonomoh (BM-5) was the second ship to carry the Narragansett sachem's name. She was one of four ships of the ...
... to San Diego a year after this image was taken. The ship will then be sunk off of Long Island on July 19, 1918. For the next 80 ... the distance in the 2000 view.
Armored Cruiser The ship in the center of the picture appears to be an armored cruiser of the ...
... Call is to the left.
--Infrogmation of New Orleans
Ship's Chandlery Two storefronts, one says "Grocery and Ship Chandlery" the other "Ship Chandlery," the latter phrase indicates they ...
... voyage from Friedrichshafen, Germany.
The great silver ship made her bow to the waiting continent at 9:45 o'clock this morning, ... idea of drollery. Or trollery. - Dave]
"Sally ship!" Something seems odd about the comparative views of the Capitol ...
... later, of course. Interesting to see how archaic the ship looks in comparison to modern warships, yet how advanced it would be ... thirty years or so earllier.
If I didn't KNOW that the ship was destroyed killing most of the crew (at a time when the crew itself ...
... Philadelphia Stea? (just to the left of the big black ship funnel in the left/center foreground):
Steaks
Steam
Steamers ... imagined. While trains were faster, coastwise travel by ship was more efficient and still very popular.
The group of schooner masts ...
... of the era This picture is full of period items. The ship’s wheel clock on the mantel, probably made by Telechron, the steel tube ... the period.
The Time Odd that no one mentioned the ship's wheel clock on the bookshelf. It seemed everyone had to have one of ...
... have been really cold that day.
....I P News Office = SHIP NEWS OFFICE I wonder what News Office is in there. Anyone knows? ... a similar News Office (of the New York Herald), called "SHIP NEWS OFFICE."
(The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, DPC, NYC) ...
... west of Ashtabula, in Lake Erie.
Not their most famous ship Tragedy (and subsequently, Gordon Lightfoot) cemented the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's status as GLEW's most famous ship. Launched in 1958, the Fitzgerald famously went down in high ...
... tower structures on the roof radio antennas? The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 required passenger ships leaving from US ports to be equipped with ship to shore radios beginning in 1911. Could these towers have been related ...
... bananas get to America now? - Dave]
Do they still ship them all the way to Baltimore?
Is that a Banana in your hand Or ... (played by Julie Andrews, in the film version) is aboard ship for the gruelling journey to Hawaii. In order to keep her strength up, she ...
... The New York Times: July 1, 1915
The Norwegian ship Cambuskenneth which sailed from Portland, Ore. on Feb. 9 for Liverpool or ... It was ascertained that there were eight Germans among the ship's crew and these had the novel experience of being rowed to the submarine ...
... off Staten Island, New York. Trainees aboard the training ship New York working in the boiler room." Medium format acetate negative ... 1924. She was acquired by the Coast Guard as a training ship on 19 December 1941. She was based at Hoffman Island, New York. She was ...
... line, called a messenger, out to a grounded or sinking ship. It was probably designed to aim high so that the weighted projectile went over the ship, draping the messenger across it in a position to be caught, without ...