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On the back of the photo in pencil is neatly written the following:
"We pass the "Normandie" on her maiden voyage at 5.15pm on Friday the 31st May. I was the only one abroad to get a snap other, so the negative has been in great demand. Thought you might like the snap."
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Joan would have been nine years old. I have no idea how the photo came to be in her house. I have no idea of the ship the photo was taken from or who took it.
This photograph is about Life and dementia.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 0-4-0ST, No.19B and O&K 0-6-0 'ELF' bask in the sunshine at Pages Park Shed on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway. This photograph was taken on Bank Holiday Monday the 27th May 2013. .
SS American Victory was docked in Superior, WI.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using a Leica Hektor 28mm f/6.3 lens.
Some artifacts from the SS Granite Rock have been saved for display at the Marine Museum of Manitoba.
The SS United States on July 1, 2010. The SS United States is still the largest passenger ship built in America and holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by ship.
Sydney Olympic Park
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SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship making her one of the most technologically advanced ships for her time. She wa the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1845, in 14 days.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel ever built. However, her protracted construction time of six years and high cost led to her owners being forced out of business in 1846.
In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired, later carrying thousands of emigrants to Australia until being converted to all-sail in 1881.
Three years later she was retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until she was scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923-2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough for her to be towed north through the Atlantic back to the United Kingdom, and returned to the Bristol dry dock where she had been built 127 years earlier.
Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, CA
SS Palo Alto was a concrete ship built as a tanker at the end of World War I. She was built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in Oakland, California. She was launched on 29 May 1919, too late to see service in the war.[2] Her sister ship was the SS Peralta.
She was mothballed in Oakland until 1929, when she was bought by the Seacliff Amusement Corporation and towed to Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, California. [3]A pier was built leading to the ship, and she was sunk in a few feet in the water so that her keel rested on the bottom. There she was refitted as an amusement ship, with amenities including a dance floor, a swimming pool and a café.[4]
The company went bankrupt two years later, and the ship cracked at the midsection. She was stripped of her fittings and left as a fishing pier. Eventually she deteriorated to the point where she was unsafe for this purpose and was closed to the public. Today she remains at Seacliff Beach and serves as an artificial reef for marine life.
In spring of 2005, oil found on wildlife nearly two years earlier was traced back to the ship.[citation needed] In September 2006, a clean-up project was started estimated at $1.7 million.[citation needed] No oil is known to have spilled into the ocean, but wildlife experts believe birds came into contact with oil by entering the ship's cracked hull while diving underwater for fish.[citation needed] The cost of the cleanup was approximately the cost of the original construction of the ship in 1919.[citation needed]
Though already split in about four pieces, winter storms in February of 2016 caused yet another severe breakage