• "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor" is a short story that was published in the 22 March 1886, issue of the Pall Mall Gazette...
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    ISBN 978-0-7509-4702-2. Stead, W.T. (22 March 1886). "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic, by a Survivor". Pall Mall Gazette. Retrieved 25 September...
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    How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor – 1886 short story written to warn about ships which lack lifeboat capacity "The Titanic – Futility"...
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    Stead's 'How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor, From the Old World to the New and his death on the Titanic are discussed by Akane...
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  • written by Morgan Robertson that outlined events similar to that of Titanic, fourteen years prior to her sinking "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic...
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    a Great Circle route across the North Atlantic, reached a spot in the ocean known as "the corner",southeast of Newfoundland, where westbound steamers...
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    Coniston Water. The paddle steamer Waverley, built in 1947, is the last survivor of these fleets, and the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. This...
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    SS Arctic disaster (category Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean)
    paddle steamer owned by the Collins Line, sank on September 27, 1854, 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland after a collision with SS Vesta, a much...
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    They were the largest vessels built for the British shipping company White Star Line, which was a fleet of 29 steamers and tenders in 1912. The three ships...
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    SS Pacific (1850) (category Paddle steamers of British Columbia)
    SS Pacific was a wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1850 most notable for its sinking in 1875 as a result of a collision southwest of Cape Flattery, Washington...
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    on the Saxonia, prior to joining the Cunard steamer RMS Carpathia in 1912, where he met the French cellist Roger Bricoux. Both men then joined the White...
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    USS Kansas (1863) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Yard with machinery taken from the cargo of prize steamer Princess Royal. She was launched 29 September 1863; sponsored by Miss Annie McClellan; and commissioned...
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    for the delay experienced in loading her coal. Imo met American tramp steamer SS Clara being piloted up the wrong (western) side of the harbour. The pilots...
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  • History of California (category History of the United States by state or territory)
    Once the California Gold Rush was confirmed, other paddle steamers soon followed on both the Pacific and Atlantic routes. By late 1849 paddle steamers like...
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    then through the lower Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean. The Ojibwe name for the lake is gichi-gami (in syllabics:...
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    CSS Shenandoah (category Auxiliary steamers)
    proceeded to the Rock Ferry slip, and applied for a steamboat. The Rock Ferry steamer Bee was placed at his disposal by Mr. Thwaites, in which he immediately...
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    RMS Ebro (category Ocean liners of the United Kingdom)
    launched for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP), but requisitioned in 1915 as the armed merchant cruiser (AMC) HMS Ebro for the Royal Navy. In 1922 RMSP...
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  • from the mid-Atlantic, but rescuers found only "a few bits of wreckage." This included an unlaunched lifeboat, stowed 66 feet (20 m) above the water...
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    USS Ashuelot (category Maritime incidents in February 1883)
    Shanghai on 19 June 1875. In mid-August, the schooner-rigged steamer set course for Fisherman's Island—near Shantou where she guarded a party of rescue workers...
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    Maritime history of California (category Maritime history of the United States by state or territory)
    first paddle-steamer to make a long ocean voyage was the 320-ton, 98-foot-long (30 m) SS Savannah, built in 1819 expressly for packet ship mail and passenger...
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    SS Canastota (category Shipwrecks in the Tasman Sea)
    Canastota (formerly Falls of Orchy) was a British-flagged, coal-burning, two-masted, steel screw, cargo steamer of 4,904 gross register tons (GRT) and...
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    operated a fleet of steamers and barges on the Arrow Lakes and was merged into the CPR as the CPR Lake and River Service which also served the Arrow Lakes...
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    of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2010 In 1991, the 19th-century paddle steamer Atlantic was discovered. It had sunk in 1852 after a collision with the steamship...
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    Second Seminole War (category United States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries)
    white men survived the battle. Pvt Edwin DeCourcey was hunted down and killed by a Seminole the next day. The other two survivors, Pvt Ransom Clarke and...
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    Maritime history (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    resulted in a drop in attacks and U-boats shifted their operations back to the mid-Atlantic. The turning point of the Battle of the Atlantic took place in early...
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  • going steamers up widened canal lanes all the way from the port of Liverpool to Manchester. Samuel continues to develop his idea of parcel post (mail order)...
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    Mail Steamers, which sailed regularly from England to Canada and South America. He would intermittently be called up for service in the RNR over the next...
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  • respond. The frigid water gave the survivors only minutes to live in the cold North Atlantic. With this in mind, the crew of Escanaba used a new rescue...
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    Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) (category Blockades by the United States)
    were trying so hard to destroy. On 6 April, after the sinking of the Norwegian mail steamer Mira, the Norwegian Foreign Minister Professor Koht, referring...
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    you have to go down in the cabin and get thawed out. G.W.S. was a very strong man and no matter how hard he worked it seemed as though the cold would go...
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