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McCurdy, at 105 In 1906, the passenger steamer C.F. (8 tons) was built at Tacoma and later operated on Lake Washington at Leschi Park by Adolph Anderson (brother of John AndersonMcCurdy at 164 and Louis Birch. Also in 1906, the Anderson yard built the passenger steamer Fortuna (81 tons, 107' long) for the partnership between Anderson and the Seattle Street Railway.

The engine from the ship was used in the passenger steamer Manitoba, launched in 1889; Manitoba was used for 60 years on the Great Lakes before decommissioning. An additional salvage operation was carried out in 1903.

In 1884, the Commodore Perry was sold and converted for use as a single screw passenger steamer. Renamed Periwinkle, She served in this capacity until 30 June 1897, when she caught fire and burnt to waters edge.

On 21 January 1942, the ICSNC owned cargo and passenger steamer SS Chak Sang was intercepted by a Japanese submarine and sunk west of the Gulf of Martaban, Burma. Five of her crew were killed during the attack.

They wait all night, but Pinkerton never comes. A week later, they see a passenger steamer in the harbour. On the deck is Pinkerton with a young blonde woman. Again she and Suzuki wait all night for him in vain.

Winser 1999, p. 11. On 23 May, Royal Daffodil along with the passenger steamer Archangel carried troops of the 30th Brigade to Calais.Winser 1999, p. 12. She was one of the ships that took part in Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.

A large wooden cross commemorates a shipwreck from 22 February 1907. It was an Österreichischer Lloyd passenger steamer, called the Imperatrix. Due to strong northwest winds 38 people died in a lifeboat that tried to reach the shore. They were all buried on the island.

By 1939 the only remaining passenger steamer was Hauiti. Auckland registered ships dropped from 226 in 1904 to 55 in 1944 and their tonnage from 20,546 to 5,627. In 1902 NSS had 28 ships totalling 6000 tons and costing an average of £34 per ton.

Nicolas Mihanovich was from Dalmatia and who emigrated to Uruguay in 1864. He then became a shipping magnate in Argentina. His company dominated trade and passenger steamer traffic on the Paraná and Paraguay rivers until 1948. Next is an excerpt from US Commerce Department, 1920. Paraguay.

In 1913, the Courier I had been sold to Italian owners. She was renamed the Aydon and sailed from Guernsey on 3 February 1913 bound for Naples via Dartmouth. She was then to proceed to Turkey to be used as a passenger steamer in and around Constantinople.

Richard Thomas Zarvona (October 27, 1833 - March 17, 1875), born Richard Thomas Jr., was an American adventurer, soldier, and a Confederate Army officer who became known as "the French lady" after he disguised himself as a woman to seize a passenger steamer during the American Civil War.

T.M. Richardson, with passenger barge on Yaquina Bay, June 1907 or earlier. Gazelle replaced Richardson in 1907, doing the same work. For most of the summer of 1907, T.M. Richardson, a Yaquina Bay passenger steamer, was out of operation undergoing repairs. Richardson had broken its propeller shaft.

Messenger In 2008 shipwreck hunters from the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary collaborated with Stock to map the wreck of Kyle Spangler. In August 2008 they partnered with the University of Rhode Island. Instead of locating Choctaw, they located the wreck of the passenger steamer Messenger.

SS Heimara (sometimes spelled as Himara or Chimara, ) was a passenger steamer operating the Piraeus – Thessaloniki route. The ship hit a reef and sank on 19 January 1947 in the Aegean Sea, killing around 400 people.SS Heimara (+1947), Wrecksite, 28 June 2018 It is Greece's deadliest maritime disaster.

Ausonia began her existence as a turbine- powered passenger steamer, ordered by Italian Sitmar in 1914. The ship was built in the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, under construction number 236.Gröner, p. 70 At the time, the only German seaplane carrier was the armored cruiser , which carried two planes.

King, pp. 25–28. Wayanda was sold in 1873, renamed Los Angeles, and employed as a freight and passenger steamer on the West Coast for another 20 years, before being wrecked off Point Sur in 1894."Wreck of the Los Angeles" Detroit Free Press, p. 1, 1894-04-23 (paysite).

British destroyers Jaguar and Verity were badly damaged but escaped the harbour. Two trawlers disintegrated in the attack. Later, the passenger steamer sank with 600 men aboard at the pier but the men were able to get off. The paddle steamer suffered a direct hit, caught fire, and sank with severe casualties.

The area around Shelter Cove was originally home to Native Americans known as the Sinkyone people. Columbia and San Pedro near Shelter Cove on July 21, 1907. Near Shelter Cove on July 21, 1907, the coastal passenger steamer Columbia collided with the steam schooner San Pedro amidst dense fog. The Columbia subsequently sank, killing 88 people.

Around 1900, wealthy individuals from Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other Midwestern industrial centers began to visit Leland and build summer cottages, arriving by Lake Michigan passenger steamer or by Lake Leelanau steamer from the railhead near Traverse City. This led to the construction of resort hotels, and the growth of Leland as a summer resort town.

Blue Ridge was originally constructed as the Great Lakes passenger steamer Virginia built by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland, Ohio. The ship was launched in 1891 and was operated by the Goodrich Transit Company between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1893, during the Chicago World's Fair, the ship and the whaleback steamer competed against each other in races.

Sondhaus, p. 86 Columbia was the first vessel to feature a dynamo and the first structure to utilize the incandescent light bulb. In 1880, the American passenger steamer Columbia became the first ship to utilize the dynamo and incandescent light bulb. Furthermore, Columbia was the first structure besides Thomas Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey to use the incandescent light bulb.

A passenger steamer passed nearby, but he was unnoticed in the dark. As daylight dawned on the 22nd, Sunday, the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 (II) came to his rescue. Marshall F. Butters, a wooden lumber carrier down bound to Cleveland with a cargo of shingles and lumber, entered Lake Erie from the Detroit River. The wind rose and the waves grew in height.

However, patronage for both companies increased significantly. To entice a bigger share of the expanding market, the Manly Co-op ordered an 700-passenger steamer to be named Emancipator. The company commissioned renowned naval architect Walter Reeks to design her. But by 1896, when the older company dropped prices to threepence return and the high cost of building the new Emancipator, the Manly Co-Op collapsed.

Sheridan married Sarah E. Hayes in Boston on September 1, 1864. On the night of August 30, 1872, she was one of the estimated seventy soulsNote. Numbers of lost vary widely in press and later print publications lost when the passenger steamer Metis sank off the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island after colliding with the schooner Nettie Cushing.Ignasher, Jim - Rhode Island Disasters 2010, p.

The interior outfitting work was outsourced to the Turku Old Shipyard. Although Crichton presumably paid high penalties for the delay, the customer was satisfied with the result and the performance of the 100-hp compound engine which provided maximum cruise speed of 10 knots. In 1875 Turun Höyrylaiva Oy ordered a passenger steamer. Its size was 175×26×10 feet and net tonnage 357.

She was finally commissioned on 28 May 1889 as the flagship of the second-in-command of the Channel Fleet.Parkes, pp. 317, 320 On 17 March 1891, the passenger steamer was accidentally blown onto the ram of the anchored Anson during a strong gale in the Bay of Gibraltar. 562 of Utopias passengers and crew and two rescuers from the armoured cruiser were killed in the accident.

In 1897, Portland was hauled out at Ballard, Washington, for repairs. Somehow she broke free from the shipway and floated off unoccupied. Eventually, Portland drifted north into Canadian waters, where she was recovered as a derelict by the B.C. Salvage Company. She came under the control of R.P. Rithet and Company, a prominent British Columbia shipping concern that re-purposed her to a passenger steamer.

His officers studied the following vessel with binoculars, but the vessel appeared to be of no threat and looked like an ordinary passenger steamer of around 1500 tons. The vessel was in fact Nadir, a nationalist auxiliary cruiser armed with a 120 mm main gun and two 105 mm secondary pieces. Captain Argüelles again changed course heading towards the Norfolk coast. Nadir followed and speeded up.

While from Cape Matapan, Prásil torpedoed and sank the steamer Dalton, traveling in ballast. U-29 took the master of the 3,486-ton British ship captive; three other men lost their lives in the attack. Five days later and some away, U-29 torpedoed , a British India Line passenger steamer of . The ship, en route from Calcutta to London with a general cargo, was finished off by U-29s deck gun.

The outbreak of World War I and its strain on international shipping caused the intercoastal service to be suspended. Manchuria at New municipal pier, San Diego, California 1925 where increased demand made San Diego a Panama Pacific port of call. In 1923 Kroonland and Finland were returned to the reinstated intercoastal route along with the American Line passenger steamer . Manchurias sister ship supplanted Kroonland on the route in 1925.

They embarked from San Francisco aboard the aging passenger steamer, the San Juan. On September 2 the San Juan collided with oil tanker S. C. T. Dodd off Pigeon Point, California, near the location of the Pigeon Point lighthouse. Her father survived, but her mother was among the 77 drowned in the incident. The tragedy played out for several months in Los Angeles, with the crew being found negligent.

They were divorced in 1886, and in 1893 he married Alice Stafford Robbins.Two Great Lakes ships would eventually receive the name Alice Stafford: a Lake Michigan passenger steamer of 859 gross tons, built at Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1882 as the Lora and renamed Alice Stafford in 1897, and a tug of 141 gross tons, built in 1914 at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the Erie Railroad for service in the Chicago River.

"History of the Portishead Railway ." Accessed 15 April 2006 and funding is now in place to reopen the rest of the line and reintroduce passenger services to Portishead. Between 1893 and 1934, the Clifton Rocks Railway linked the passenger steamer pier at Hotwells with Clifton on the rim of the gorge. A footpath and National Cycle Network cycleway run alongside the Portishead Railway and along the old towpath.

The next day, U-96 encountered the un-escorted British passenger steamer of . A first torpedo was launched at 07:45, hitting the ship amidships, causing her to stop. A second torpedo hit the ship astern 20 minutes later, but still did not sink. Two more torpedoes were needed before Almeda Star sank in position , three minutes after the fourth and last torpedo was launched at 13:55.

Waipapa Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Waipapa Point, Southland, New Zealand. It was first lit on 1 January 1884. The lighthouse was built in response to the wreck of the passenger steamer Tararua on reefs off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881, with the loss of 131 lives. With its sibling, the retired Kaipara North Head Lighthouse, this was one of the last two wooden lighthouses built in New Zealand.

Beck and the rest of the crew traveled by passenger steamer to Oslo, where they were received by the king, and they received the Norwegian South Pole Medal (Sydpolsmedaljen), established by King Haakon to commemorate the expedition.Store norske leksikon: Sydpolsmedaljen. Amundsen also gave each of the expedition participants a gold pocket watch decorated with the expedition participant's monogram and the inscription "Fram 1910–1912." Beck received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1912.

McArthur served almost exclusively in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. Tragedy struck McArthurs crew on 17 August 1894 when her commanding officer, Lieutenant Freeman Crosby, US Navy, and four crewmen drowned after their boat capsized coming through surf on the coast of the state of Washington. On more than one occasion, McArthur assisted mariners in distress. On 15 December 1909, she hauled the passenger steamer Fleetwood off the ground in Grays Harbor, Washington.

One of the steamboats from Rosherville Gardens was involved in a horrific accident in 1878. The passenger steamer, after leaving Rosherville pier, was in a collision with the collier Bywell Castle at Tripcock Point, a mile downstream from Woolwich. 640 people died from the collision, 240 being children. An inquest was held at Woolwich, but no conclusive reason was ever established as to the cause of the disaster at the Devils Elbow on the Thames.

In addition, Nova Scotia does not provide much protection of rural areas from subdivision of property. Despite this, most of the shoreline is undeveloped. Passenger steamer on Bras d'Or Lake near New Campbellton, ca 1903. Until modern roads were built in the 20th century, coastal freighters/steamships would make the rounds to various lakeside communities, frequently making connection with passenger trains at Iona/Grand Narrows where the railway crossed the Barra Strait.

Following his failure to be re-elected, he resumed his former business pursuits. Macy lost his life in the burning of the steamer Niagara, near Port Washington, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan on September 24, 1856. The Niagara was a sidewheel passenger steamer, one of the luxury vessels known as 'palace steamers', which sailed the Great Lakes in the years from 1844 to 1857. On September 23, 1856, the Niagara left Sheboygan, Wisconsin, for Port Washington.

Her journey made the canal a tourist attraction and gave the canal an added purpose. Passenger steamer companies operating out of Glasgow advertised the canal as the "Royal route" and by the late 1850s more than 40,000 passengers passed through Ardrishaig each year and were met by steamers to Oban at Crinan. In 1866 a steam-powered passenger boat Linnet replaced horse-drawn boats for tourists. Linnet remained in service until 1929.

Crab, oyster and the pilchard fisheries developed and pilots could reach incoming ships before their Falmouth rivals. As the port expanded supporting industries such as ropewalks, pilchard cellars and inns developed, and a watch-house was provided for the coastguard service. Maritime industries declined with the opening of the railway to Falmouth in 1863, to be replaced with a passenger steamer service, holiday destination and an exclusive residential and retirement village in the 20th-century.

San Juan, caught in a bad storm in April 1905. The storm incapacitated San Juans machinery, causing the vessel to arrive in San Francisco several days late. San Juan was constructed at John Roach and Sons of Chester, Pennsylvania in 1882. Her eventual running mate was . In 1895, while San Juan was in service with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the passenger steamer sank in a storm off Mazatlán, killing 100 people.

Swann, p. 242. In 1880, Roach finished construction of the coastal passenger steamer Columbia for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Columbia was the first ship to utilize a dynamo and the first structure other than Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory to use the incandescent light bulb. Due to the complexity of Edison's new lighting systems, the final installations of the Edison equipment onboard Columbia were completed by Edison's personnel in New York City.

Anson arrived at Portsmouth from the builder's yard in Pembroke in March 1887, and lay at anchor for two years, slowly completing for sea while waiting for her guns to be manufactured. She finally commissioned on 28 May 1889 as flagship of the Rear- Admiral, Channel Fleet. On 17 March 1891 passenger steamer accidentally collided with stationary Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar. 562 of Utopias passengers and crew and two rescuers from were killed in the accident.

For the sea trials, the Coast Guard acquired an ageing passenger steamer, , from the War Shipping Administration. The Coast Guard carried out major modifications to the ship, including removal of much of the ship's superstructure for the installation of a 38 × 63 foot flight deck for the use of helicopters, plus the addition of armor and weaponry. Following these modifications, the ship was commissioned on 20 July 1943 as USCGC Cobb (WPG-181)—the world's first helicopter carrier.

After commissioning she was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla, where she was part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla. She was the flotilla leader under the command of Commander John de Robeck during exercises in 1899. Lieutenant Charles Tibbits was appointed in command in September 1899, serving as such for a year until September 1900. In October 1901 she collided in heavy wind near Felixstowe pier with the passenger steamer Suffolk, and the stem was damaged.

After attending Thomas Edison's New Year's Eve lighting demonstration in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Henry Villard, president of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company became enthusiastic of Edison's work. Villard subsequently ordered an Edison Lighting System to be installed on his company's new passenger steamer, Columbia. Although met with hesitation by Edison himself, the project moved forward, making the installation onboard Columbia Edison's first commercial order for the light bulb. Columbia would also be the first ship to utilize a dynamo.

On 20 September 1906, a brazen robbery is committed on the passenger steamer "Tsesarevich Georgiy" near Sukhumi, Russian Empire. Several hirsute men threatening with weapons, break open a cashbox which is transporting a large amount of money and having captured several hostages land on shore. Then they mercilessly kill the captured people and disappear into the mountains. After some time the leader and his assistant shoot and kill the accomplices and then the assistant gets a lead cartridge through his heart.

The 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon in Hong Kong Colony on the night of 27–28 July 1908 caused substantial loss of life and property damage. Most notable was the loss of the SS Ying King (英京號), a passenger steamer, which sank while trying to seek shelter from the storm; 421 lives were lost in that sinking. As a result of this storm, additional safety and shelter measures were undertaken, including the construction of a second typhoon shelter in Hong Kong harbour.

Bill Johnston's most famous undertaking, the one that earned him his pirate moniker, occurred early on the morning of May 30, 1838. Following a plan Johnston hatched with Donald McLeod (a general in the Patriot army), they and twenty others, mostly Canadians, set out to capture the passenger steamer, the Sir Robert Peel. They intended to use the Peel to transport rebel troops to Canada. Shortly after midnight, the Peel docked at Wellesley Island to load firewood for its boilers.

At dusk on 11 April 1942, she picked up 290 survivors from the torpedoed merchant passenger steamer SS Ulysses, and landed them at Charleston, South Carolina the following day. On 13 July 1942 Manley transited the Panama Canal for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Touching the Society and Fiji Islands, she reached Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides on 14 August, and loaded special cargo for Guadalcanal, invaded only one week earlier. Carrying bombs, ammunition, and gasoline, Manley and got underway on 16 August.

On February 28, 1890, BIW won its first contract for complete vessels: two iron gunboats for the Navy. One of these ships was the , the first ship launched by the company. In 1892, the yard won its first commercial contract for the 2,500-ton steel passenger steamer . In the 1890s, the company built several yachts for wealthy sailors. In 1899, Hyde was suffering from Bright's Disease and resigned from management of the shipyard, leaving his sons Edward and John in charge.

The Royal Navy was using coal as its primary source of propulsion and additional coal trains would have been operated through the area as well. In August 1914 the Germans disguised a passenger steamer (the ) in GER colours and deployed it as a minelayer. This ruse was spotted on 5 August 1914 and the ship sunk by the British light cruiser and destroyers and . The GER employed significant numbers of women during this period as many men had joined the army.

At the time of purchase, Belle was the only steamer left on Lake Temagami. The T&NO; Railway later decided that she did not fit with their ambitious plans to modernize the boating operation on Lake Temagami and was dismantled on the shore of Muddy Water Bay in 1945. She was replaced in 1946 by Aubrey Cosens VC, a faster diesel-powered boat named after a World War II hero who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Belle was the last passenger steamer in Northern Ontario waters.

Albert Grey, the ninth Governor General of Canada, paid his first visit to the Hudson Bay area in 1910, returning home in a luxuriously-appointed suite on board an icebreaker bearing his name, CGS Earl Grey. Grey was interested in the construction of a coastal railroad, establishing new seaports (including Port Nelson) and charting the waters of Hudson Bay. CGS Earl Grey was built in 1909 in Barrow-in-Furness for the Saint Lawrence River winter service as an "icebreaking freight and passenger steamer".Fraser, p.

Kasota (Dakota for "a cleared place") was the name of a wooden Great Lakes iron ore steamer, built in 1884. The Kasota sank after colliding with the passenger steamer The City of Detroit on the Detroit River on July 18, 1890. The Kasota was salvaged and rebuilt in 1892 but sank again after springing a leak during a storm off Grand Marais, Michigan, on September 19, 1903. The USS Kasota was a naval tugboat, launched in 1944 and struck from the Navy list in 1961.

Timbs, p. 270. Some merchants were also quick to adopt screw propulsion. In 1840, Wimshurst built a second propeller- driven vessel, the 300-ton Novelty, the first screw-propelled cargo ship and the first to make a commercial voyage. In 1841, a small passenger steamer fitted with Smith's patented propeller, Princess Royal, was built in the north of England, and in 1842, several more screw-propelled vessels were built or launched in Britain, including Bedlington, built at South Shields, Bee, launched at Chatham,Fincham, p. 349.

The Colonial began on January 18, 1892, as a daytime express service between Boston and Washington. From Boston, the train traveled west over the New York, New Haven & Hartford's Shore Line and then the New Rochelle branch to the Harlem River. There, passengers boarded the passenger steamer Maryland, which carried them to Jersey City, New Jersey. At that time the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) had no station in Manhattan, so passengers heading for New York traveled to Jersey City, then transferred to Manhattan-bound ferries.

Most notably, approximately 300 meters (330 yards) offshore in Cockle Bay at is the site of the wreck of , a fire-damaged former passenger steamer and coal storage hulk which was wrecked in the bay in 1915 while under tow from Townsville to Picnic Bay for scuttling as a breakwater. On 24 December 1971, Cyclone Althea struck the area, causing the partial collapse of part of the wreck′s iron hull, but the wreck has become an artificial island hosting a variety of plant and bird life.

Early in 1915, at around the same time of the British trans-Atlantic passenger steamer Lusitania sinking, he meets Edith Bolling Galt, a Washington D.C. widow. A courtship develops and they find themselves in love and are married in December 1915. The next year of 1916 brings The President to reelection to a second term. Many feel that he is going to be defeated, and the result is so close that the balance hangs on the returns from California, which goes for President Wilson.

The boat was a flat-bottomed design able to travel in shallow waters, more a powered barge than passenger steamer. It had side-wheels and was powered by what one passenger called a "feeble eighteen-horsepower engine". Catharine Parr Traill called it "a poor excuse for a steamboat" when her family used it in late summer 1832. A second steamer of the same design was built in Peterborough, sawn in half, carried overload to Bridgenorth and launched as the Sturgeon on 5 September 1833.

On 30 May at Corfu, U-4 torpedoed and sank the French passenger steamer SS Italia, in operation by the French Navy as an armed boarding ship. On 19 June, U-4 scored a triple victory when she sank the French steamers Edouarde Corbière and Cefira and the Greek ship Kerkyra off Taranto. U-4 sank what would be her final ship on 12 July, when she torpedoed the French tug Berthilde off Cape Stilo. In September, U-4 received a new bulwark on her conning tower.

On 28 April, Laburnum escorted a transport carrying troops to Galway. On 8 February 1917, the passenger steamer was torpedoed by the German submarine WSW of Fastnet Rock, causing Mantolas crew to abandon ship. U-81 remained in the vicinity until chased away by Laburnum when she arrived on the scene hours later. Laburnum rescued 176 survivors of Mantolas passengers and crew (seven crewmen had been killed by a capsizing lifeboat) but attempts to talk the steamer in tow failed, and Mantola sank on 9 February.

Most notably, one of New Zealand's worst shipping disasters occurred here: the wreck of the passenger-steamer Tararua, en route from Bluff to Port Chalmers, which foundered off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881 with the loss of all but 20 of the 151 people aboard.Fraser (1986), p. 94. Another noted shipwreck, that of the Surat, occurred on New Year's Day in 1874. This ship, holed on rocks near Chasland's Mistake eight kilometres southeast of Tautuku Peninsula, limped as far as the mouth of the Catlins River before its 271 immigrants abandoned ship.

On August 13, 1890, Henderson took the White Star Line passenger steamer RMS Teutonic to sea on her first westward race across the Atlantic with the steamship SS City of New York. The race ended in victory for the Teutonic. The race from Queenstown harbor, Ireland to Sandy Hook, took five days and nineteen hours.The New York Evening Post On August 21, 1890, the big steamship liner Teutonic and liner City of New York raced from the New York pier to the Sandy Hook bar out to the bay.

In September, Grant was determined in need of repair too costly to justify the expenditure. Subsequently taken out of service, the revenue cutter was sold on 28 November 1906 to A. A. Cragin, of Seattle for $16,300, after which she became the merchant vessel Grant. Grant was subsequently sold to the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company who rebuilt her as a dory halibut fishing steamer. In September 1911, she helped rescue survivors of SS Ramona, a passenger steamer that ran aground near the Spanish Island, in Christian Sound, Alaska.

By the 1870s Reeds Lake had become a popular day trip stop for residents of Grand Rapids and other surrounding communities. Ramona Park, an amusement park owned and operated by the Grand Rapids Street Railway Company, which provided regular service between the then-nearby city of Grand Rapids and Reeds Lake, was a popular destination spot for area families between 1897 and 1955. A passenger steamer by the name of Ramona was used to ferry passengers around the lake to various destinations. The Point Paulo resort was located on Reeds Lake in the early 1900s.

A ferry service along part of its length was for years conducted by Caesar Roose, several of whose descendants still live beside it. He brought the 1894 400-passenger steamer, Manuwai, from the Whanganui in 1920. In 1924 a Cambridge to Port Waikato excursion was being run 2 or 3 times a year, taking 12 to 14 hours downstream and a few hours longer upstream. Manuwai sank at her moorings in 1938, but was taken to Mercer for repair in 1939, where she was converted to a barge.

Returning to the east coast in August, she operated in the western Atlantic until going in ordinary, in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard 13 May 1897. On 28 April, 1896 passenger steamer () struck the anchored ship at Newport News, Virginia and sank. Wyanoke had 107 passengers and 42 crew onboard, of with two passengers and 1 crewman drowned, and one crewman died of injuries in the hospital. Recommissioned 15 March 1898 for service in the Spanish–American War, Columbia patrolled along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies until 26 August.

Governor Cobb, a 2,700 ton passenger steamer built in 1906 for the Boston-New Brunswick trade, has the double distinction of being not only America's first turbine-powered vessel, but also of eventually becoming the world's first helicopter carrier.Cobb, 1944, WPG-181, U.S. Coast Guard website. The ship had a top speed of . The 3,750-ton sister ships Yale and Harvard—built in 1907 for the Metropolitan Steamship Company, which operated them between New York and Boston—had a top speed of and when first entering service were the fastest American-flagged vessels afloat.

Along with her sister ships, SS Bunker Hill and SS Old Colony, Massachusetts provided overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between New York City, Boston, and Portland, Maine. In 1911, the Maine Steamship, Metropolitan Steamship, and the Eastern Steamship companies merged to create the Eastern Steamship Corporation. Massachusetts and Bunker Hill returned to the Cramp & Sons shipyard for conversion from coal to fuel oil in 1912. Financial difficulties forced Eastern Steamship Corporation into receivership in 1914, and it emerged three years later as the Eastern Steamship Lines.

In April 1861 Zarvona formulated his idea to support the Confederacy by either becoming an engineer officer or by going to the sea. A month later he formed a command of Zouaves that eventually would become Company H of the 47th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Simultaneously he started to plan the takeover of a ship; a plan that, with support of the government of Virginia, started on June 28. A disguised Thomas and a crew of accomplices seized the Bostoner passenger steamer St. Nicholas, planning to use it to raid the sloop of war .

To the west and south of Isle Royale is the Rock of Ages Lighthouse. Built in 1908, the light has provided the ships of Lake Superior with assurances that the Rock of Ages reef would be found by the captain, before the reef found the ship. But that was too late or too little for the three residents lying atop the reef. The Passenger Steamer Cumberland had spent 21–23 July 1877 aground on a bar near Nipigon, Ontario, just prior to heading out into the clear lake from Thunder Bay.

She was used to haul bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal, grain, salt and later automobiles. In June 1888 the Cambria ran aground southwest of Peninsula Point Light on Lake Michigan with a cargo of iron ore weighing 2,334 tons. The grounding tore a hole in her hull. The Lakeland as a passenger steamer circa 1915 In 1910 the Cambria was taken to the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company to be converted to a passenger vessel, but the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company was unable to complete the conversion.

SS Dorrigo In July 1925 it was announced that The passenger steamer Dorrigo, which since 1921 had been engaged in the passenger and cargo service between Sydney and Coff's Harbour, had been purchased by John Burke, Ltd., for use in trade between Brisbane and North Queensland ports. The vessel had only recently been purchased by the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, with other vessels of the Langley fleet. It was intended to run between Brisbane and Cooktown via ports, and expected to extend sailings to Thursday Island, when cargoes warranted.

Havana was launched in 1906 by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia for the New York & Cuba Mail Steam Ship Co. — commonly referred to as the Ward Line — as a passenger steamer on the New York to Havana route. In 1909, on the way to the Quarantine Station in New York, Havana rammed the anchored Munson Line freighter Cubana which was hidden from sight behind , also at anchor. Cubana had no damage below the waterline and Havana, laden with inbound New York passengers, suffered only superficial damage. Striking firemen delayed Havanas departure in July 1911.

A powerful winter storm raked Lake Superior that night. At 11:00 pm the nightwatch pilothouse crew of the passenger steamer Huronic, also upbound on the lake, reported seeing lights on a ship they passed in the storm which they believed were in the pattern of those of the Bannockburn. However, no signals of distress were observed, and the two ships passed each other without incident. The Bannockburn was reported overdue the following morning at the Soo Locks, but given the weather the previous night, this was not considered unusual.

Viking pictured in the Mersey. Vindex was sold back to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in April 1919, and reverted to her original name, rejoining the fleet after her conversion back to a passenger steamer in July 1920. For another ten years she dominated the Fleetwood–Douglas service until she was replaced following the introduction into service in 1930 of the Lady of Mann. When the Lady of Mann commenced her sailings to Fleetwood, Viking, although still serving the port, also began to undertake more general work.

The narrow harbour street of the burned district The greatest damage occurred at Kingston and at Buff Bay and Annotto Bay on the northern coast. Eighty-five percent of buildings in Kingston were destroyed by the shaking, which was followed by a fire that destroyed parts of the business and warehouse districts. The Elder-Dempster passenger steamer Port Kingston, which was under repair in Kingston Harbour at the time, was threatened by fire on the nearby wharf. A rapid temporary repair allowed her to be moved to the safety of an unaffected railway wharf.

The safety of American steamships was further questioned on September 8, 1934 when the liner caught fire while anchored in a fierce storm off New Jersey. Over 125,000 people watched from the shoreline as Morro Castle burned, killing 130 individuals. Less than two years later, the passenger steamer sank following a collision with the Norwegian freighter Talisman off Sea Girt, New Jersey. With shipboard safety becoming a larger issue, the federal government was finally pressured to implement new safety regulations, so as to prevent any more disasters like San Juan, Morro Castle and Mohawk.

Lenape was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding Co. of Newport News, Virginia, in 1912 for the Clyde Steamship Company, known as the Clyde Line. She operated as a passenger steamer on the East Coast of the United States, typically on a New York City–Charleston–Jacksonville route.Crowell and Wilson, p. 315. (A summary of Lenape 's route can be found at the Clyde Line page at Maritime Timetable Images.) After the United States declared war on Germany, the units that comprised the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) were selected in early May and ordered to Europe within 30 days.

The passenger ferries and many of the rail ferries across the Detroit and St. Clair rivers had ended after the bridges and tunnels were built. The ferries pioneered concepts in ship design and icebreaking techniques. Bow propellers and steel spoon-shaped bows made the rail ferries the best icebreakers on the lakes for many years until the dedicated U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers were assigned during World War II. In contrast, the ferries later had some of the most outdated equipment on the Lakes. The Badger, still in service in 2019, is the last coal-fired Great Lakes passenger steamer.

By the time that the Royal Navy launched its first screw frigate, the Amphion it already had two screw sloops in commission. The 9 gun sloop HMS Rattler, launched in 1843, was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and featured an advanced two-bladed propeller that influenced the design of his later passenger steamer SS Great Britain.Being BrunelHMS Rattler The Amphion had 28 32 pdrs and 8 heavier guns. The size and armament of English wooden screw frigates then rapidly increased. The Euryalus of 1853 was 65 m long, displaced 3,125t, had 28 8 inch 65 cwt shell guns and 22 32 pdrs.

The ship was launched on 28 April 1888 and sponsored by Mary Cameron, the daughter of U.S. Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania. The dynamite-gun cruiser was launched a few minutes after Yorktown in the same ceremony. According to a news account, 25 United States Senators, 180 Congressmen, the Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney, and the governors of six states attended the dual ceremony, many arriving from Washington, D.C., via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's passenger steamer . By 19 March 1889, Cramp had completed Yorktown and was prepared to turn her over to the Navy.

On 11 November 1864, a secret expedition of boats from the ship captured a party of Confederate officers aboard the passenger steamer Salvador, off the Bay of Panama. They had planned to seize the Salvador for the Confederate Government and convert her into a raider to capture Union gold shipments from California. In the spring of 1866, Lancaster received extensive repairs at the Mare Island Navy Yard and on 27 June sailed from San Francisco, California for the east coast, via Panama Bay, Callao, Valparaíso, Barbados, and Nassau. She arrived Norfolk Navy Yard on 8 March 1867 and decommissioned on the 19th.

Demand for lumber declined as Comstock Lode ore depletion became evident. Bliss shifted his attention to building a steamboat landing at Tahoe City, California for his Tahoe Tavern resort. Bliss formed the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company in 1895 to launch the 200-passenger Tahoe in 1896 and acquire the rebuilt passenger steamer Nevada. When transfer of lumber over the C&TL;&F; flume ended in 1898, the Lake Tahoe Railroad was dismantled and shipped across Lake Tahoe to be reassembled in 1899 as a tourist railroad connecting Tahoe City to the Southern Pacific Railroad at Truckee, California.

Anna Spafford Anna Spafford (March 16, 1842 – April 17, 1923), born Anne Tobine Larsen Øglende in Stavanger, Norway, was a Norwegian-American woman who settled in Jerusalem, where she and her husband Horatio Spafford were central in establishing the American Colony there in 1881. She was a survivor of the sinking of the French passenger steamer Ville du Havre in 1873. Her daughters Anna “Annie” (born June 11, 1862), Margaret Lee “Maggie” (born May 31, 1864), Elizabeth “Bessie” (born June 19, 1868), and Tanetta (born July 24, 1871) were lost in the wreck. Afterwards Anna gave birth to three more children.

In 1918 he built and launched the Aurora to cater for picnickers, duck-shooters and fishermen. When WSC went into liquidation in 1922, Roose Shipping Co was formed to buy all the viable assets, including the Huntly coal mine and 6 vessels, which continued regular services on the Waikato and its tributaries. The largest in the fleet was the 1894 400-passenger steamer, Manuwai, brought from the Whanganui in 1920. In 1924 it ran a Cambridge to Port Waikato excursion 2 or 3 times a year, taking 12 to 14 hours downstream and a few hours longer upstream.

On 26 September 1946 the Zalinski was en route from Seattle to Whittier, Alaska, with a cargo of army supplies when she ran into the rocks of Pitt Island in the Grenville Channel, 55 miles south of Prince Rupert. The ship sank within twenty minutes, while her crew of 48 were rescued by the tug Sally N and the passenger steamer SS Catala. According to a report in The Vancouver Sun of 30 September 1946, at the time of her sinking she was transporting a cargo of at least twelve bombs, large amounts of .30 and .

On 10 December 1888 Governor R. M. McLane, responding to a pirate attack that involved firing on a passenger steamer on the Chester River was ambushed by a flotilla of pirate boats. The steamer responded by ramming and sinking two boats and taking twenty-four pirates prisoner. The police schooner Julia Hamilton found pirates on oyster beds in late December, ordered them off, but they returned and the police schooner attacked them resulting in several hours engagement with over 600 shots fired by police aboard Julia Hamilton. The pirates were routed, one being shot through an arm and boats riddled.

In 1900, the Anderson yard built the steam launch Elsinore, and for a while the Anderson concern ran her between Leschi and Madison parks. Later she was sold to Capt. George Jenkins, who ran her for many years on Lake Whatcom.McCurdy, at 61 L.T. Haas, built for the Interlaken Steamboat Company, was launched in 1902, and later acquired by Captain Anderson. Like the fate of many other boats, L.T. Haas was destroyed by fire in 1909.Faber, Jim, Steamer’s Wake, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 In 1904 Anderson built the steel-hulled sternwheel passenger steamer Mercer (84 tons, 65' long).

SS Deutschland was a Hamburg America Line German passenger steamer equipped with Slaby-d'Arco radio equipment."The Slaby-Arco Portable Field Equipment for Wireless Telegraphy" by A. Frederick Collins, Scientific American, December 28, 1901, pages 425-426. As the ship was beginning a transatlantic crossing to Germany, one of the passengers, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, brother of the German Kaiser, attempted to send a wireless telegram through Nantucket thanking U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt for his recent hospitality."Objections to Monopoly", History of Communications-electronics in the United States Navy by Linwood S. Howeth, 1963, pages 70-71.

NSW Heritage Office Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View The rock platform and reef on the southern side of Boat Harbour is known as 'The Merries'. The coastline in the area is generally east-west, making it a potential hazard for northbound shipping, especially prior to the building of the Cape Baily Light. In 1895, the Aberdeen White Star Line passenger steamer Ninevah, on its way from London to Sydney, ran aground on this reef, during a fog. About a third of the ship's length was on the reef but she was refloated, without assistance, on the rising tide.

She was chartered by the US Navy for World War I service, delivered on 25 September 1917 she became USS Adirondack (ID 1270), and was officially requisitioned on 16 October 1917. For more than two years, she was employed as a floating barracks attached to the Receiving Ship at the New York Navy Yard, in a noncommissioned status. No longer required after the Armistice. Adirondack resumed her pre-war operations, serving as a passenger steamer with the Hudson Navigation Co. She was finally abandoned due to age and deterioration during the fiscal year which ended on 30 June 1924.

When, on the 18 June 1850, the SS Orion was wrecked off Portpatrick, the Reverend Clark, a survivor, wrote to the Reverend Edward Lyon Berthon: “Can not you think of a way in which boats, enough for all on board, be stowed on a passenger steamer without inconvenience?”. This led to Berthon's development of the Berthon Collapsible Lifeboat. When the boat was demonstrated to Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, the latter commented that a cannonball would go through it easily. Berthon asked him what a cannonball would not go through, and the Queen was reported to have been greatly amused.

Scholar Roberto Cintli Rodríguez places the location of Chicana at the mouth of the Colorado River, near present-day Yuma, Arizona. An 18th century map of the Nayarit Missions used the name Xicana for a town near the same location of Chicana, which is considered to be the oldest recorded usage of the term. A gunboat, the Chicana, was sold in 1857 to Jose Maria Carvajal to ship arms on the Rio Grande. The King and Kenedy firm submitted a voucher to the Joint Claims Commission of the United States in 1870 to cover the costs of this gunboat's conversion from a passenger steamer.

In 1865 the company took delivery of the largest ever Dartmouth-based passenger steamer - the 180-foot-long PS Eclair. This steamer was purpose-built for cross-channel services to the channel islands, which were operated in connection with the railway, but the service was unsuccessful, and the Eclair was sold in 1868 The Louisa was broken up in 1868, when only 12 years old. Her replacement in 1869 was the double ended paddle steamer Dolphin; designed for the short Kingswear route - the Newcomin now being used on the Totnes route. Also built in the same year was PS Guide - a wooden-hulled tug.

Before Massachusetts completed her conversion she was renamed Shawmut after the Shawmut Peninsula on the Charles River that flows through Boston. She was the second ship in the Navy to carry the name and was commissioned as USS Massachusetts (ID 1255) on 7 December 1917, with Captain Wat T. Cluverius in command. After her extensive conversion from a passenger steamer to a minelayer, Massachusetts was renamed USS Shawmut (ID 1255) on 7 January 1918 and departed the Navy Yard at Boston on 11 June 1918. She completed her sea trials in Presidents Roads, Massachusetts before steaming to Naval Base 17 at Inverness, Scotland, where she anchored on 30 June 1918.

Major H. Chamney who was selected to be the first Principal of the reorganized Bengal Police Training College was an army officer, serving at Ghazipur (India) at that time. In those days, there was a regular passenger steamer service between Ghazipur and Calcutta run by Indian Navigation and Railway Company. Legends say that while traveling to Calcutta by this river route, Major Chamney once stopped at Charghat-which was then a steamer station-and was fascinated by the beauty of Sardah with a large open field and massive buildings of Dutch and English indigo planters. These were then being used as the Katcheries of the Midnapur Zaminderi Estate.

RMS Segwun on her maiden voyage to Bracebridge 9 July 1925. Note the separation between the oak lounge forward, and the gentleman's lounge aft on the upper deck. In the 1920s the Muskoka Lakes saw strong growth in tourism as the Canadian economy recovered from the trauma of World War I. By 1924 the Muskoka Lakes Navigation Company found that the six steamers then serving the lakes were growing inadequate to the task and looked to add to their fleet. Rather than commission an entirely new boat, management decided to convert the decommissioned SS Nipissing from a paddle-wheeler to a twin propeller passenger steamer.

Tai Mo To, one of The Brothers islands (大小磨刀洲) The SS Ying King (英京號) was a Hong Kong-based passenger steamer of 768 tons, built in 1903. Her owner was the Sing On Steamship Company. The steamer departed from Canton at 6:00 pm on the evening of 27 July, heading towards Hong Kong with 33 crew members and 430 passengers. The Ying King was one of three steamers coming from Canton, and as the wind was gaining force, was making her way to anchor and shelter in the lee of The Brothers (大小磨刀洲) with the intent to weather the storm north of Lantau Island.

Huntsville, a wooden screw steamer, was built in New York City by J. A. Westervelt for H. B. Cromwell & Co., who intended to run her as a passenger steamer between New York and Savannah, Georgia. Huntsville was launched on 10 December 1857,"Launched during the year 1857", The New York Times, 1858-01-15. and was in operation on her intended route by January of the following year. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, Hunstsville was chartered from her owner, H. B. Cromwell & Co., in New York City 24 April 1861; commissioned there 9 May 1861, Commander Cicero Price in command; and purchased by the Navy 24 August 1861 while on active duty.

In 1922 the need to explore new horizons prevailed over her recurring tendency to home sickness, as Elisabeth Rupp went to Argentina for a year. She worked as a home-tutor for a prosperous German family there. There was time for reading and thinking and for close observation: she became very critical of the upper-class social mores she came across in the expatriate community, especially with respect to the subordination of women. She traveled to and from Argentina on the luxury passenger steamer Cap Polonio, and although she was obliged to travel third- class, she was able to interact with first-class passengers such as, most importantly, the naval officer Jan Gerdts.

The Caledonian Railway had a monopoly of the rail connection, and in October 1864 the Chairman of the G&SWR; negotiated with the Provost of the Burgh of Greenock regarding improved rail and harbour facilities. The Caledonian Railway ended in the town at Cathcart Street, and had restricted rail access to the East Harbour involving street running. The growing trade in passenger steamer transits to towns and resorts in the Firth of Clyde was limited by the necessary walk from the station to the berth. The G&SWR; offered the possibility of a new direct rail connection to a new harbour to the north-west of the town, which the Burgh was prepared to develop.

McCulloch sinking on 13 June 1917.On 13 June 1917, McCulloch was steaming with 90 U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy personnel on board from San Pedro, California, to Mare Island Navy Yard, where she was to be fitted with larger guns for her wartime Navy service. She was proceeding cautiously in heavy fog about west-northwest of Point Conception, California, at 07:30 when her crew heard the fog signal of the Pacific Steamship Company passenger steamer Governor, which was southbound from San Francisco to San Pedro with 429 passengers and crew aboard. Governors crew also heard McCullochs fog signal, and Governors captain ordered full speed astern and ordered Governor′s whistle to blow three times to indicate that her engines were at full speed astern.

The Waipapa Point lighthouse was built after the Tararua shipwreck Sea Lion at Waipapa Point Waipapa Point is a rocky promontory on the south coast of Foveaux Strait, the South Island of New Zealand. It is located southeast of the mouth of the Mataura River, at the extreme southwestern end of the area known as the Catlins. The coastline of the Catlins is notoriously dangerous, and there have been many shipwrecks in the region. The most notable of these, and also one of New Zealand's worst shipping disasters, was the wreck of the passenger steamer Tararua, en route from Port Chalmers to Melbourne via Bluff, which foundered off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881 with the loss of all but 20 of the 151 people aboard.

Beaver was built in 1910, as a steel-hulled, single-screw, freight and passenger steamer at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. She was purchased from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. on 1 July 1918, for service in the U.S. Navy during World War I and given the classification Id. No. 2302. She was converted to a submarine tender at the Mare Island Navy Yard and was commissioned there on 1 October 1918, Lieutenant Commander James A. Logan in command. To prepare her to serve as mobile repair and maintenance facility for submarine squadrons, the yard workers installed a machine shop, electrical plant, battery shop, and refrigerator units inside the ship.

In response, the Regulator Line stated that it would match superior service and speed, and moved to a faster schedule with its two boats, Gatzert and Dalles City. By the summer of 1915, the major part of the passenger steamer service out of Portland was being provided by only four vessels: the Georgiana to Astoria, Bailey Gatzert on excursions to Columbia River Gorge, Grahamona to Oregon City, and, to St. Helens via Willamette Slough, the smaller propeller-driven steamer America America was built in 1899 at Portland, Oregon, and was 99 gross tons, 93.9 feet long. On the night of May 17, 1917, Bailey Gatzert, which had been out of service for some time, returned to the Portland-The Dalles Route.

The City of Muskegon was a steel-hulled sidewheel package and passenger steamer,Associated Press, “14 Die As Boat Tossed On Dock - Lake Gale Brings Unusual Deaths to Passengers During Night,” The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Thursday 30 October 1919, Volume XLVI, Number 60, page 5. built in 1881 for service on the Great Lakes, which was wrecked early on Tuesday 28 October 1919 when it struck a pier at Muskegon, Michigan, at 0430 hrs.,Wire service, “Water Wall Sinks Ship - Huge Wave Hurls Steamer Against Pier; 12 Drowned,” Los Angeles Evening Herald, Los Angeles, California, Tuesday 28 October 1919, Volume XLIV, Number 309, page 1. in a 60 mph gale, sinking in a period estimated between four and ten minutes.

Subsequently, in 1853 Captain Drury in HMS Pandora surveyed and charted the coast and harbour as part of a broader maritime survey of New Zealand. The first wharf was constructed in the 1860s, before which shipping operations took place from the beach. Passenger steamer services were operated from the 1870s, being discontinued in 1929 following the construction of a rail link to Hamilton in 1928. In September 1873, the Port of Tauranga was officially established by order of the Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir James Fergusson. The Lady Jocelyn of 2,138 tonnes was the first large sailing vessel recorded as entering the harbour, in 1882. Various schemes were proposed for dredging and other improvements to navigation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but little was done.

SS Theodore Roosevelt was a passenger steamer built in 1906 at Toledo, Ohio, by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company, and operated commercially on Lake Michigan. Ordered taken over by the U.S. Navy on 6 April 1918 for World War I service as a troop transport, she was acquired by the United States Navy from the Roosevelt Steamship Company sometime in the spring of 1918, assigned Identification Number (Id. No.) 1478, and fitted out as a troop transport during the summer and fall of 1918. Though some sources suggest that Theodore Roosevelt served in a non-commissioned capacity in the Navy, the fact that the 1919 Navy Directory lists Lieutenant Harry D. Irwin, USNRF, as "...comdg U.S.S. Roosevelt..." is a strong indication that she was in fact commissioned as USS Theodore Roosevelt (ID-1478) during 1918.

A grand jury indicted the president and three other officers of the steamship company for manslaughter, and the ship's captain and engineer for criminal carelessness, and found that the disaster was caused by "conditions of instability" caused by any or all of overloading of passengers, mishandling of water ballast, or the construction of the ship. Federal extradition hearings were held to compel the six indicted men to come from Michigan to Illinois for trial. During the hearings, principal witness Sidney Jenks, president of the shipbuilding company that built Eastland, testified that her first owners wanted a fast ship to transport fruit, and he designed one capable of making and carrying 500 passengers. Defense counsel Clarence Darrow asked whether he had ever worried about the conversion of the ship into a passenger steamer with a capacity of 2,500 or more passengers.

Lucy Parsons, as she appeared in 1886. The coming of the American Civil War in 1861, or "the slave-holders' Rebellion," as he later called it, led Parsons to leave what he described as the "printer's devil": the position of newsboy. At 13 years old, Parsons volunteered to fight for the forces of the Confederate States of America in an irregular unit known as the "Lone Star Greys." Parsons' first military exploit was aboard the passenger steamer Morgan which ventured into the Gulf of Mexico to intercept and capture the forces of General David E. Twiggs, who had evacuated Texas en route to Washington, D.C.. Upon his return, Parsons sought to enlist in the regular Confederate States Army, an idea ridiculed by his employer and guardian at the time, publisher Willard Richardson of the Galveston Daily News.

While she did not explicitly mention it in The Guns of August, Tuchman was present for one of the pivotal events of the book: the pursuit of the German battle cruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau. In her account of the pursuit she wrote, "That morning [August 10, 1914] there arrived in Constantinople the small Italian passenger steamer which had witnessed the Gloucester's action against Goeben and Breslau. Among its passengers were the daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren of the American ambassador Mr. Henry Morgenthau." As she was a grandchild of Henry Morgenthau, she is referring to herself, which is confirmed in her later book Practicing History, in which she tells the story of her father, Maurice Wertheim, traveling from Constantinople to Jerusalem on August 29, 1914 to deliver funds to the Jewish community there.

She was converted to a steam trawler and given the designation DO241. The Rose Ann replaced the Albatross, which whilst trawling with the Lady Loch on the Bahama Bank in the early hours of Tuesday 6 November 1894, was run down and sunk by the passenger steamer Duke of Clarence, which was owned by the London & North-western and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company and operated a schedule between Fleetwood and Belfast. As a result of the collision, five of the crew of the Albatross were lost, out of a total crew of eight. The crew members were: Henry Hudson of South Quay, Douglas, Isle of Man; Richard Gregg originally from Liverpool but who had lived for many years at Well Rd, Douglas; William Daugherty and John Leadbeater, both of Douglas, and Charles Shimmin who was the son of the skipper of the Lady Loch and lived with his parents in Big Well St, Douglas.

During her Coast and Geodetic Survey career, Surveyor had occasion to assist mariners in distress. After the 153 survivors of the passenger steamer – which had struck a rock and sunk with the loss of one crewman off the south end of Amook Island () in Uyak Bay () on the coast of Kodiak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago on 26 May 1929 – reached Larsen Bay on Kodiak Island aboard a small motorboat and a cannery tender, Surveyor picked them up at Larsen Bay and transported them to Seward in Southcentral Alaska.alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Hall of Honor: Lifesaving and Protection of Property by the Coast and Geodetic Survey 1845-1937 On 7 September 1929, she rendered assistance to survivors of the steamer Golden Forest, which was wrecked on Cape Ilktugitak; she located the wreck using radio compass bearings and took aboard two men from Golden Forest for medical treatment. On 31 July 1934, she assisted the steamer , which had grounded off Cape Mordvinof, Alaska.

Shortly after Cedar′s completion, the Lighthouse Service transferred her to the United States Navy in August 1917 for World War I service. Commissioned into Navy service as USS Cedar, she operated as a patrol vessel in the Thirteenth Naval District in the Pacific Northwest. At 14:00 on 24 October 1918, Cedar received word that the Canadian passenger steamer had run aground in a snowstorm 11 hours earlier on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska during a voyage from Skagway to Juneau, Territory of Alaska.Report to the Canadian Minister of Marine on the Causes of the Wreck of the Princess Sophia, Victoria, BC, 27 Mar 1919Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, 90, 100, 145, 204, 236, 299, 300, 392, 433, 458, 589, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1966 (No ISBN number) The largest all-weather ship in the vicinity and the only one large enough to take off all of Princess Sophia′s passengers and crew, Cedar was away.

Postcard from 1916 depicting Regele Carol I Regele Carol I was initially built as a passenger steamer. She was completed by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. The twin-screw ship was formally christened by the King of Romania and commissioned in July 1898.H.M. Stationery Office, 1898, Board of Trade Journal and Commercial Gazette: (1898:July-Dec.), Volume 25, p. 2031899, Engineers' Gazette Annual, Almanac, Diary and Log, Volume 13, p. 2 Shortly after her commissioning, her Romanian owners changed her fuel from coal to a mixture of half coal and half oil (two separate boilers). This conversion offered several advantages: the ship became slightly faster, the fuel consumption dropped by around half (60-80 tons of oil instead of 150 tons of coal required to cover the same distance) and the size of her crew was reduced.James Dodds Henry, Bradbury, Agnow & Co, 1908, Oil Fuel and the Empire, p. 150 The steamer displaced 2,653 tons and her power plant had an output of 6,500 horse power, generating a top speed of 18 knots.

Thomas Wilkinson VC (1 August 1898 - 14 February 1942) was an English sailor and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Wilkinson was 43 years old, and a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: > On 14 February 1942 in the Java Sea, off Malaya, , a patrol vessel, formerly > a passenger steamer, commanded by Lieutenant Wilkinson, sighted two enemy > convoys, one escorted by Japanese warships, The lieutenant told his crew he > had decided to engage the convoy and fight to the last in the hope of > inflicting some damage, a decision that drew resolute support from the whole > ship's crew. In the action that followed, a Japanese transport was set on > fire and abandoned, and Li Wo engaged a heavy cruiser for over an hour > before being hit at point-blank range and sunk. Lieutenant Wilkinson ordered > his crew to abandon ship, but he went down with Li Wo. His VC is in the Imperial War Museum.

On 7 August 1899, he wrote a letter to the Chief Editor of the renowned magazine "The Marine Engineer", which reads: > Dear Sir, In your esteemed journal of 1 August, page 207, you write that the > KAISER FRIEDRICH has been withdrawn by the Norddeutscher Lloyd from service > and returned to her builders. This not being the fact, I request you kindly > to rectify it, in the next issue of your esteemed journal, according to the > following data: – The KAISER FRIEDRICH was the property of the firm of F. > Schichau, and in spite of her built as a high speed passenger steamer, > requiring a good quality of coal, the Norddeutscher Lloyd mostly gave her a > very inferior coal – besides, many of the stokers had no previous > experience. Under these circumstances it could not give surprise that the > KAISER FRIEDRICH was not able to develop her full speed, and there was no > other way for the firm of F. Schichau but to withdraw its steamer and give > her into other hands. The KAISER FRIEDRICH will make her next voyages under > the flag of the Hamburg America Line.