hydraulika-i-pneumatyka: Titanic

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. At the outbreak of World War I she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 8 August 1914 she was commissioned into Royal Navy service. On 25 August 1914, the newly designated HMS Oceanic departed Southampton to patrol the waters from the North Scottish mainland to Faroe. On 8 September she ran aground and was wrecked off the island of Foula, in the Shetland Islands.

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and lost at sea in a collision in 1909 while sailing for the White Star Line. The ship was equipped with a new Marconi wireless telegraphy transmitter, and issued a CQD distress call, resulting in the saving of around 1,500 lives, the first major marine rescue made possible by radio. Known as the "Millionaires' Ship" because of the number of wealthy Americans who traveled by her, she was described as a "palatial liner" and was the flagship of White Star Line's Boston service.

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line's North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of the German ocean liner company Hamburg America Line's trio of transatlantic liners, her completion was delayed by World War I. The liner never sailed under the German flag except on her sea trials in 1922. Following the war, she was finished by her German builders, handed over to the Allies as war reparations and be…

Evidence: 39 • authority: 72

RMS Homeric, originally launched as Columbus, was an ocean liner built for Norddeutscher Lloyd and launched in 1913 at the F. Schichau yard in Danzig, Germany (now Gdańsk, Poland). Columbus was ceded to Great Britain in 1919 as part of German war reparations. She was sold to the White Star Line in 1920, which named her Homeric. Her sister ship Hindenburg remained in German ownership and was renamed Columbus. Homeric was operated by White Star from 1922 to 1935.

Evidence: 26 • authority: 88

"OFFSHORE MERCURY" and Her Maiden Voyage. Abstract The OFFSHORE MERCURY is a self-propelled self-elevating drillship which can undertake unaccompanied major ocean voyages and field moves. She can be used for exploratory or development work in the offshore oil and gas industry. Because of her self-propulsion capability the vessel is classified and registered just like a ship. As a result of this, some technical and legislative problems arose during construction and in respect of her operation. Some of these matters are considered with reference to the corresponding solutions which were adopted so that the appropriate rules of the regulatory bodies were satisfied. All major construction and n…

Evidence: 20 • authority: 80

SS Uganda on her maiden voyage by Shornemead Fort, Kent 22 August 1952

Evidence: 20 • authority: 72

The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, better known as the White Star Line, was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States. While many other shipping lines focused primarily on speed, White Star branded their services by focusing more on providing comfortable passages for both upper class travellers and steerage passengers. White Star is remembered for its innovative vessel Oceanic, its long-serving flagship Olympic, and for the losses of some of its best passenger liners, including…

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