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    The SS Superior City was considered a pioneer vessel at her launching in 1898. She was the largest vessel ever built on freshwater at that time. She sailed...
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    Both cities feature museum ships (SS William A. Irvin in Duluth and SS Meteor in Superior), devoted to the local maritime heritage. Superior was the...
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    modern lakers were: SS Superior City, August 20, 1920, Lake Superior, 29 of 33 crew died, (collision with freighter Willis L. King) SS Emperor, June 4, 1947...
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    Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ft)...
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    Maya settlements required access to adequate water supplies, and therefore cities, including the famous Chichen Itza, were built around these natural wells...
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    SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea in 1941. Her...
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    area. The Whitsundays and Cairns have their own Plans of Management. Many cities along the Queensland coast offer daily boat trips. Several continental and...
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    SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
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  • SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western...
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    tourist destination in Latin America, with more visitors than any other city in the Caribbean region.[citation needed] The Punta Cana International Airport...
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    SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands...
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    Stanegarth Stanwood Stella SS Stepas Darius HMS St Lawrence SS Superior City HMAS Swan Sweepstakes T SS Tahoe USCGC Tamaroa USS Tarpon Thesis Thistlegorm Thomas...
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    Stanegarth Stanwood Stella SS Stepas Darius HMS St Lawrence SS Superior City HMAS Swan Sweepstakes T SS Tahoe USCGC Tamaroa USS Tarpon Thesis Thistlegorm Thomas...
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    Stanegarth Stanwood Stella SS Stepas Darius HMS St Lawrence SS Superior City HMAS Swan Sweepstakes T SS Tahoe USCGC Tamaroa USS Tarpon Thesis Thistlegorm Thomas...
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    mail, and packages between settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898, America sank in...
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    companies. Some 350 inmates from the overcrowded prison in Lombok’s largest city Mataram, were sent to help with the first harvests between 1974 and 1979;...
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    White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by the award of SS Bismarck as part of postwar reparations; she entered service as RMS Majestic...
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    Roo. The municipal seat is located in San Miguel de Cozumel, the largest city in the municipality. Cozumel is one of the locations featured in the 2006...
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    45°33′33″N 85°59′16″W / 45.559167°N 85.987778°W / 45.559167; -85.987778 SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that...
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    Breyer, Siegfried (1973). Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905–1970. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-07247-3. Brown, D. K. (1995). The Design...
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    [self-published source] "cristo degli abissi". Fuori Genova (in Italian). City of Genoa. Milano, Barbara (16 July 2018). "Il Cristo Degli Abissi Restaurato...
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    course of about N76E (076 degrees) and soon sighted the masthead lights of SS Storstad, a Norwegian collier, on her starboard bow at a distance of several...
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    Stanegarth Stanwood Stella SS Stepas Darius HMS St Lawrence SS Superior City HMAS Swan Sweepstakes T SS Tahoe USCGC Tamaroa USS Tarpon Thesis Thistlegorm Thomas...
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    Bereika, Marsa Ghozlani, Old Quay, and Shark Observatory. The wreckage of the SS Thistlegorm, located off the coast of Ras Muhammad, is a popular area for...
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    grate, apparently without the knowledge of city officials. In 2013, the ADM Exploration Foundation and the city fielded an exploration expedition to explore...
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    her escort, the corvette Hollyhock, the oil tanker SS British Sergeant and the Norwegian ship SS Norviken of 2,924 GRT. Hermes sank at coordinates 7°35′28...
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    rehearsing with the fleet carrier Illustrious for an attack on the port city of Sabang (Operation Cockpit) scheduled for 19 April. For this operation...
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    SS Yongala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She sank in a cyclone off the coast of Queensland...
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    large-scale expansion of the island lands for development of the capital city in the last few decades. It is reported that habitat of these birds is now...
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    coordinates) Graveyard of the Great Lakes List of shipwrecks of western Lake Superior List of Great Lakes shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places...
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