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SS United States of the United States Lines, in New York harbour during the mid 1950's.
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History
Canada
Name:SS Keewatin
Owner:Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Port of registry:Montreal
Builder:Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Launched:6 July 1907
Christened:1907
Maiden voyage:14 September 1907
In service:7 October 1908
Out of service:29 November 1965
Status:Museum ship, Port McNicoll, Ontario, Canada
General characteristics
Tonnage:3,856 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:336.5 ft (102.6 m)
Beam:43.8 ft 7.2 in (13.533 m)
Depth:26 ft 7.2 in (8.108 m)
Installed power:3,300 h.p.
Propulsion:
Quadruple expansion steam engine,
4 coal-fired scotch boilers,
Single screw
Speed:14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Capacity:288
Crew:86
SS Keewatin is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur / Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes steamship service. Keewatin also carried packaged freight goods for the railway at these ports.[1]
History
Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland as Hull No. 453, Keewatin was launched 6 July 1907 and completed her maiden voyage docking at Levis, Quebec to be halved because the canals below Lake Erie, specifically the Welland Canal could not handle ships as long as Keewatin. The ship was reassembled at Buffalo.,[2] where she resumed her voyage under her own power to begin service at Owen Sound, Ontario.
Keewatin in the 1910s
Keewatin ran continuously for almost 60 seasons, being retired in 1966. Soon after, she was acquired for historic preservation in the United States. Her sister ship, Assiniboia, was also set to be preserved as an attraction, but burned in 1971 and was scrapped.
In the last twenty years of her working life, like many passenger ships of that era on the Great Lakes, Keewatin and sister ship Assiniboia operated under stringent regulations imposed for wooden cabin steamships following the Noronic disaster in 1949. Doomed by their wooden cabins and superstructure, these overnight cruisers lasted through the decline of the passenger trade on the lakes in the post-war years. As passengers opted for more reliable and faster modes of travel, Keewatin and her sister ship were withdrawn from the passenger trade in 1965, continuing in freight–only service until September 1967. Along with South American and Milwaukee Clipper, Keewatin was among the last of the turn-of-the-century style overnight passenger ships of the Great Lakes.
Keewatin was eventually moved to Douglas, Michigan, in 1967, where she was a museum ship across the river from the summer retreat Saugatuck, Michigan. In July 2011 Keewatin was purchased by Skyline Marine and dredged from the Kalamazoo River with a one-mile (1.6 km) long, ten-foot (3.0 m) deep, 50-foot (15 m) wide excavation and dredged channel and moved to the mouth of the river and Lake Michigan on 4 June. Keewatin, manned with a crew of ten was towed back to Canada and arrived in Port McNicoll on 23 June 2012. Keewatin has just recently[when?] completed major restorations and has been independently appraised at $32,000,000.[when?] The ship is open for visits from 24 May until 10 October.[citation needed]
The ship has also become a floating set for a number of maritime-related documentaries and television docudramas, including subjects involving the torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania, the burned-out Bahamas cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, Canadian Pacific's Empress of Ireland, as well as Titanic. She was also used extensively in the opening episode of Season Seven, "Murdoch Ahoy," of Murdoch Mysteries.[3] A documentary has been broadcast on CBC Canada was also made called "Bring Her on Home".
Amenities
Keewatin is one of the largest of the remaining Edwardian era passenger steamers left in the world. The ship has become a time capsule of those days, along with a few other ships lucky enough to survive, such as Nomadic, lake steamer TSS Earnslaw (1913), (currently still operational in New Zealand), and surviving ex-Manly ferry MV Baragoola (1922) (out of service held in Australia). Keewatin is also noted[by whom?] as part of the evolution of the Great Lakes as a strong maritime center, and her long service record is attributed to her popularity and solid engineering.
Route
Keewatin was originally designed to complete the link in the Canadian Pacific Railway's continental route. She and Assiniaboia joined three others, Manitoba, Athabaska, and Alberta (the latter two also built in Scotland). She served this purpose by linking the Railroad's Owen Sound depot to Fort William Port Arthur on Lake Superior. In 1912 Port McNicoll, Ontario, was established as the new 'super port' and rail terminus and the ships moved there. The ships took two and a half days to make the trip each way, including half a day traversing the Soo Locks.[1] Port McNicoll was known as the "Chicago of the North" until the trains and ships were discontinued in 1965 following the completion of the Trans Canada Highway through northern Ontario, causing the town to practically die, as all of the rail and ship jobs left.
Museum ship
After languishing for a few years, in January 1967 Keewatin was bought by West Michigan entrepreneur Roland J. Peterson Sr.[4] for $37,000, $2,000 more than it would have sold for scrap.[5] It arrived on the Kalamazoo River in Douglas, Michigan, on 27 June 1967. The ship was known as Keewatin Maritime Museum, permanently docked, from 1968 until its relocation in 2012.
Relocation
In August 2011 it was announced that the vessel had been sold to Skyline International Developments Inc.,[6] and was moved back to its home port of Port McNicoll, Ontario, on 23 June 2012, for restoration and permanent display as a maritime museum and event facility. This is possible because of the cooperation of the local and State officials in obtaining permissions and permits to dredge the harbor where Keewatin sat for 45 years to allow the ship to be moved. A not for profit foundation, the Diane and RJ Peterson Keewatin Foundation, has been formed to operate the ship and restore her. Skyline Developments, a publicly held corporation that is rebuilding the 12,000-acre (4,900 ha) Port McNicoll site, is funding this project.
Keewatin was moved from Kalamazoo Lake on Thursday, 31 May 2012, and docked about a mile down river just inside the pier for continued maintenance before entering Lake Michigan. It departed Saugatuck for the big lake on Monday, 4 June 2012, to continue its journey northward to Mackinaw City. There it had a temporary layover before the final leg of the trip to Port McNicoll.
On 23 June 2012, a major celebration marked Keewatin's return and the rebirth of a new planned community surrounding her.[7] The date is significant as it was 45 years after Keewatin left Port McNicoll on 23 June 1967 and 100 years after 12 May 1912, the date that she began working from the same dock. The town staged the celebration, which included a 200-voice choir as part of the ceremonies.
In late 2017 plans were being discussed to move Keewatin to Midland, Ontario. By March 2018 it became clear that Keewatin would remain in Port McNicoll for another summer pending further relocation options.[8] In 2019, development company CIM committed to incorporating Keewatin into a redevelopment plan at the Port McNicoll site; the plans called for the ship to remain as a museum in a park adjacent to the proposed mixed-use (residential and commercial) development.[9] But by June 2020, Skyline Investments (owner of Keewatin and surrounding development properties) indicated CIM had defaulted on mortgage payments,[10] and would instead be pursuing plans to donate the ship to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario.[11] Local opposition to the relocation from Port McNicoll has been spirited,[12][13] and the fate of Keewatin remains unclear.
SS Leonid Sobinov docked at Pyrmont in 1979.
Owned by Black Sea Shipping Company at the time, SS Leonid Sobinov was originally known as RMS Saxonia when it was built for Cunard Line. In 1963, the ship was renamed RMS Carmania and in 1973, it was purchased by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company.
The SS Leonid Sobinov has a significance in Sydney history being the ship involved in the Red Bikini Girl incident. In January 1979, 18yo crew member, Liliana Gasinskaya, slipped out of a porthole wearing only a red bikini and swam across the harbour to claim political asylum.
Taken: January 1979
From www.evergreenfleet.com/princess_charlotte.html
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE
1908
Built: Fairfield Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
Length: 330' Beam: 47' Depth: 24' Tonnage: 3926
On December 30 the splendid three -stacker Princess Charlotte steamed into Victoria harbor, 58 days out from Glasgow, where she was built by the Fairfield works. Designed to run with the fast Princess Victoria on the Seattle-Victoria Vancouver "triangle" run." The Princess Charlotte is one of the most elaborately furnished vessels that ever entered Victoria harbor. The entrance to the passenger accommodations is through watertight doors on the ship's side on the shelter deck forward, leading to a spacious entrance hall, which is tastefully paneled in teak, the floor being laid with terra cotta and white rubber tiles. At the
fore end of the entrance is situated the barber shop, baggage room, purser's office, and at the extreme fore end of the vessel is a large smoking and sitting room for second -class passengers, with a stairway leading to lavatory and sleeping accommodations on the main and orlop decks. Aft of the main entrance is a large central hall, fitted up with lounge seats upholstered in crimson plush. At the after end of this hall is the main staircase, which leads to the passenger accommodations and public rooms on the promenade deck. On either side of the shelter deck there is accommodation for 176 first -class passengers in two and three berth rooms, fitted up in the latest style. "On either side of the forward central hall are twelve large special three - berth rooms rifted up in first - class manner, with electric radiators, sofa beds, wash stands, etc., and there are four rooms rifted up as bridal chambers. This unusual number has given the -Princess Charlotte the title of the 'honeymoon boat.' At the after end of the shelter deck is a central hall similar to the forward one, also a handsome ladies' tea room. On the promenade deck there are two spacious halls in a large deck house, with a well in the center of each, which gives ample light to the central hall
below. On either side there are accommodations for 104 first-class passengers in two -berth rooms, finished in similar manner to the staterooms on the shelter deck. Entrance to the dining salon on the main deck aft is by a stairway from the central hall or shelter deck. The salon extends from ship's side to ship's side and is capable of seating 133 persons." The steamer's twin screws were driven by inverted direct acting four-cylinder triple-expansion engines, 24, 38, 43, 43 x
33. She was a coal-burner, and remained so for the next 30 years. Her service speed was 18 knots, her dimensions 330 x 47 x 24. In day service she was certified to carry 1,200 passengers. Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1908," H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.
FINAL DISPOSITION
Three well-known steamships of the Canadian Pacific B. C.Coastal Service, Princess Charlotte, Princess Adelaide and Princess Alice, were sold to Typaldos Bros. Steamship Co. of Piraeus, Greece. The Charlotte, extensively reconstructed and with a single funnel replacing her original three, was
operated as the cruise steamer Mediterranean between Turkey, Greece and Italy. Either her transformation at the Greek shipyard or the enthusiasm of Greek press agent increased her tonnage from 4,000 to 12,000 and her speed
from 18 to 22 knots, for so she was described in the literature of her new owners
SS enlisted man wearing camouflaged coveralls over his black panzer wrap, with a regulation issue toque for added warmth.
The list of celebrities, artists, musicians and heads of state that have sailed this great trans-Atlantic liner in it's 1950's heyday is impressive (the likes of Kim Novak, Cary Grant, President Harry Truman, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper)...That alone is enough to declare this ship a historical treasure.
"The SS United States was the brainchild of one of the world's foremost marine architects, William Francis Gibbs. His dream was to build a passenger ship that was faster, safer and more technologically advanced than anything else afloat."
Olmax Fabrication LLC debut their production version of the SS Trike at the 2009 AMD Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building located at Champions Park in Sturgis, SD. The SS Trike resembles the classic “Big Wheel” Chopper-style design that we all rode as a kid, which is sure to put a smile on your face no matter how old of a kid you are.
Builder Jason Nieman is entered in the Production Class at the World Championships and will be competing for the gold with other storied manufacturers like Brass Balls Bobbers and Choppers, OCC Motorcycles, Big Bear Choppers and Big Dog Motorcycles just to name a few.
The SS Trike comes with a long list of race-breed features including composite body, a 24-inch Olmax Fabrication polished front rim wrapped in a Metzler, American Racing 14-inch rear wheels and digital speedometer. In addition, the trike sports American Suspension front end, 6 speed or automatic transmission, and a choice of power from Ultima, S&S or TP.
The popular automatic transmission option features a bullet-proof design lifted from automotive racing applications, which met Olmax Fabrication LLC reduced weight and packaging requirements. The design is sourced from a General Motors Powerglide system that is a current racing standard, which delivers smooth and consistent shifts.
Extending in the race inspired theme is a custom 2 into 1 performance pipe that connects into a chambered muffler. The dual exhaust pipe at the rear of the trike delivers a healthy rumble that is a cross between a muscle car and a sweet-stroking Harley.
The SS Trike is designed to comfortably accommodate a variety of enthusiasts from 5’ to 6’2” tall in fewer than 5 minutes. Selecting two different seat heights and three different foot control locations is a snap and easy to do.
The SS Trike is available in all primary colors. Additional options include graphics, Wire-Plus digital speedo, air-ride suspension, a solo seat with enclosed trunk, multiple trim treatments and a black or polished engine.
To see the SS Trike in Sturgis check out the production class at the World Championships located at Champions Park in Sturgis, SD. To speak with builder Jason Nieman in Sturgis, call him at 715-630-9090.
About Olmax Fabrication LLC
Olmax is a design company that is expanding its ability into manufacturing of its products. Our goal is to design and manufacture different products, some say out of the box. We do what many innovative businesses do, look for what is not being done or what hasn't been done and then we do that. We try to create a tasteful product with wide appeal.
Low cost 1/64 modern Chevrolet Camaro models arn't just the preserve of the mighty Hot Wheels brand, Maisto now too have their own version of the 2016 Camaro SS which it uses in its basic range. Its a neat enough casting combining accurate styling with a stock looking paint colour and a smattering of painted detailing, all in all just a typical budget Maisto. Part of a nine vehicle Adventure Force branded set bought from a Wal-Mart where their range is a lot more extensive than the ones we get here in ASDA. Mint and boxed.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SS Statendam (1956-1982)
Rhapsody (1982-1986)
Regent Star (1986-1996)
Sea Harmony (1996-2004)
Harmony I (2004)
Owner:
Holland America Line (1957-1982)
Paquet (1982-1986)
Regency Cruises (1986-1995)[1]
Perosea Shipping Co (1996-2004)
Port of registry: the Netherlands1957-1982
Builder: N.V. Dok- en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam[2]
Yard number: 753[3]
Launched: 12 June 1956
In service: 1957-1995
Out of service: 1995
Identification: IMO number: 5339212[4]
Fate: Scrapped in Alang, India in 2004[1]
Notes: Steam turbines were replaced by diesels in 1987
General characteristics
Tonnage: 24,294 gross tons[2]
Length: 642 ft (195.7 m)[3]
Beam: 81 ft (24.7 m)[3]
Speed: 16.5-knot (30.6 km/h)[3]
Capacity: 881 passengers [3]
SS Statendam was an ocean liner of the Holland America Line built in 1957. She was bought by the Paquet group in 1982 and renamed Rhapsody and sold again to the Lelakis group in 1986. Later she became part of the Regency Cruises fleet and was named Regent Star in the Regency fleet. She was laid up after the Regency Cruises bankruptcy and remained in poor condition for many years. She was scrapped in Alang, India in 2004.[2][3]
Apollo 17 cruise
The ship was the venue for a conference on space exploration held to coincide with the December, 1972 launch of Apollo 17. Panelists included science fiction authors, scientists, and others ranging from Isaac Asimov to Norman Mailer to Katherine Anne Porter. The cruise had only 100 paying fares, only 40 of whom paid the additional conference fee, and Holland-America Line lost an estimated $250,000 on the venture.[5] G. Harry Stine characterizes it as the "Ship of Fools" expedition (presumably influenced by the Porter novel). A key organizer of the expedition was Richard C. Hoagland, while the symposium moderator was Hugh Downs; both would later play roles in the "pro-space movement", which space historian Michael Michaud believes found a nascent constituency at the conference.[6]
In this totally ill-conceived picture taken by a 15 year old 'Renown' is a steam ship with which I was fortunate enough to have first hand knowledge.
The 'Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co' (P&O) had acquired the SS Uganda with the business of 'British India line' (BI), but the ship continued to wear the latter's black and white livery. The near 17,000 ton twin turbine powered 'Uganda' was kitted out as an educational cruise ship for the benefit of students, and it was in that guise that I was fortunate to sample it for a fortnight in 1975 around the Mediterranean and the Middle East. To be honest, I hadn't realised it was steam powered until with a deafening long blast on it's melodious deep toned chime whistle, we left Dubrovnik!
The vessel continued this existence until the Falkland's War of 1982 where she was hastily configured into a hospital ship. Returning from the conflict, a brief spell back in the world of educational cruising again for her until being laid up in the River Fal, Cornwall. In spite of efforts to save her too (see previous posting), her last voyage (Re named SS Triton) was to Taiwan where she became beached by a hurricane... scrapping followed in 1992.
In better times, the tidy looking vessel is seen shortly before our departure to one of the Greek Islands. The picture was taken against the advice of the ship's crew as the Yugoslavian authorities of the time took a dim view of people photographing ports and railways. ... now where's that picture of a train in these docks?!
Steamship SS Dicky which was washed ashore in 1893 during a cyclone with a crew of 11 and 40 tonnes of Sand. Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out. SS Dicky is a photographic delight! The skeleton rests on a 800m long pristine beach stretch extending from low rocks at the northern end to a bluff and rock platform at the southern end.
Independence is seen here at Honolulu's pier 10 & 11 around 1993. This classic vessel provided weekly cruises around the Hawaiian islands with American Hawaii Cruises.
Originally built for transatlantic passenger service between New York and Mediterranean ports, Independence sailed for American Export Lines from 1951 to 1967.
The SS Shieldhall now based in Southampton. She was one of the sludge boats used by Glasgow Corporation and operated from 1956 - 1977 in that role.
This is one of the larger trucks, which often had bikes as freight. This one is really good conserved :)
Strobist:
Nikonos SB 105 @ 1/2 cam left
Subtronic Gamma @ 1/4 cam right
The SS Peagus is a 1950s Tudor Rose tugboat. Bought for me by my grandmother in the early 1990s it has travelled with me wherever there was a pool. It has sailed to the USA, Ghana and most recently Cyprus. It has quite a high sentimental value attached, considering it must have been bought for about £3.99!
A custom Nazi sniper, with printed CitizenBrick splinter camo helmet, and Brickarms USMC Springfield hand-painted by myself. This was before the scoped Kar-98 was available, so I improvised :)
Model of a French liner (the name of which I did not record at the time) being repaired at the La Musee National de la Marine, Le Palais de Chaillot, Paris, July 1974. However, I am pretty sure it is the SS Rochambeau of the General Atlantic Company.
The Rochambeau was built by Soc. des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, Penhoet being launched and completed in 1911. She was the first French ship to be powered by a combination of triple expansion reciprocating engines and steam turbines. However, Britain had built the first all-turbine commercial vessel in 1901 and the first two all-turbine Transatlantic liners in 1904. Having said that, with the state of development of the early turbines being what it was, there were advantages (e.g. economy) in having a mixed propulsion system. It had 4 screws and a maximum speed of 17kts.
She measured 559 ft x 63 ft x 43 ft and weighed 12,678 tons gross. She served on the Le Havre - New York service in 1911-15 & 1919-33 and Bordeaux - New York 1915-19. She was scrapped in 1934.
tepatitlán, mexico
1976
circo osorio, touring circus
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Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary's retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel. The Queen Mary celebrated the 70th anniversary of her launch in both Clydebank and in Long Beach during 2004, and the 70th anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary
Also in the shot is the Russian Attack Submarine "SCORPION"
I also have another shot of the queen here
The SS Montgomery in the Thames Estuary, It ran aground when its anchor slipped one night towards the end of WWII. It was full of munitions and posed a danger so work started to empty its cargo but the cargo started to moved and it was considered to dangerous to continue. At the time it was considered that if it exploded it would have taken out half of Kent and Essex. There are differing ideas as to its current state, some say the explosives would not now be a problem, some disagree.