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    RMS Transvaal Castle was a British ocean liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank for the Union-Castle Line for their mail service between Southampton...
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  • MV Sussex (1948) RMS Sylvania HMS Tarpon (1917) HMS Telemachus (1917) SS Thalassa (1924) HMS Tiger (1913) HMS Tiger (C20) RMS Transvaal Castle (1961) HMS Troubridge (R00)...
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    RMS Pendennis Castle was a Royal Mail Ship, passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line. The vessel served the Union-Castle Line from...
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    RMS Windsor Castle was a passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line on its Cape Mail service between Britain and South Africa. Completed...
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    Red Boat III, SS IslandBreeze, SS Festivale, SS S.A. Vaal, RMS S.A. Vaal, RMS Transvaal Castle. Sold for scrap in 2003. Birka Gotland Birka Line 2004 34...
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    begun in 1965, when two Union-Castle Line ships used on the Southampton–Durban service, RMS Transvaal Castle and Pretoria Castle, were transferred to Safmarine...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from RMS Britannic)
    HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic; /brɪˈtænɪk/) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and...
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    Royal Mail Ship (redirect from RMS ship)
    (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract...
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    The RMS Mülheim was a German cargo ship that was built in Romania and launched in May 1999. It was wrecked on 22 March 2003 at Land's End, United Kingdom...
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  • degrees Celsius in addition to Fahrenheit. 18 January – Union-Castle Line ship RMS Transvaal Castle (1961) makes her maiden voyage Southampton–Durban, perhaps...
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    surviving Union-Castle Line ships were scrapped in the early 21st century, the former Kenya Castle in 2001, the former Transvaal Castle in 2003, the former...
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    Cullinan Diamond (category Transvaal)
    & Co. Due to its immense value, detectives were assigned to the RMS Kenilworth Castle that was rumoured to be carrying the stone, and a parcel was ceremoniously...
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    mechanic J. Moller and an aircraft on 18 December 1909 on board the RMS Kenilworth Castle. The first manned, heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa...
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    Events from the year 1899 in Ireland. 14 January – Ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. 4 March – the first issue of Arthur...
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    regiment, and returned to the United Kingdom in July 1900 on the RMS Dunottar Castle. In December 1902 he was appointed a captain in the Sussex Yeomanry...
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    the same time RMSP introduced a pair of new 22,200 GRT liners, RMS Asturias in 1926 and RMS Alcantara in 1927, which at that stage were the largest motor...
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    return to South Africa with his chief of staff Lord Kitchener on the RMS Dunottar Castle to take overall command of British forces in the Second Boer War...
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  • March 2021. Jeremy Plester (16 June 2011). "Weatherwatch: Lightning made castles and churches very dangerous places". The Guardian. Archived from the original...
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  • and is substantially intact. 3 August 1978: Frigate Transvaal scuttled in False Bay. SAS Transvaal was one of three Loch-class frigates in the South African...
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  • Lincoln Castle HMS Loch Killisport HMCS Long Branch HMS LST 3041 HMCS Magnificent HMS Mallow HMS Mutine HMCS Ontario HMS Orchis HMS Oxford Castle RMS Parthia...
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    she also had on board a convict being extradited to Transvaal Colony, accompanied by two Transvaal policemen. Waratah reached Durban at 11:00 AM 25 July...
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    the RMS Asturias, a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company passenger liner, in 1927, and the Canadian Pacific ocean liners RMS Empress of France in 1928, RMS Duchess...
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    Kitchener arrived in South Africa with Field Marshal Lord Roberts on the RMS Dunottar Castle along with massive British reinforcements in December 1899. Officially...
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    906. Some of the stone was brought from a demolished tower at Dunglass Castle, East Lothian and timber was taken from Coldingham Priory. The fort was...
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    three castles that face the Sound, these are Ardtornish Castle (a 14th-century castle ruin of Clan Donald) and Aros Castle (a ruined 13th-century castle originally...
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    on the starboard side of the conning tower by a mail steamer, SS Berwick Castle, which was en route from Southampton to Hamburg. She sank in only 39 ft...
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    Milwaukee USS Mizpah Miztec USCGC Mohawk Mohegan RMS Moldavia SS Monarch SS Monrovia HMS Montagu SS M.M. Drake MV RMS Mulheim USS Muliphen SS Myron N Nagato Niagara...
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    ringed by many castles and buildings of historical importance that are open to the public, including Inveraray Castle, Brodick Castle, the opulent Mount...
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  • Encyclopædia begins publication in London. March 4 The Pretoria branch of Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established...
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    the Royal Canal (1845) Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) Sinking of the RMS Tayleur (1854) Monto (red light district) (1860s-1950s) Wellington Monument...
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