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67 relations: Alfred Booth and Company, Allies of World War I, Argentina, Australia, Barracks ship, Battle of Singapore, Belfast, Ben Line Agencies, Birkenhead, British United Airways, Burmeister & Wain, Cammell Laird, Clydebank, Containerization, Defensively equipped merchant ship, Denmark, Ellerman Lines, Empire ship, Falkland Islands, Frederick Richards Leyland, German invasion of Denmark (1940), Hamburg Süd, Harland and Wolff, Harrison Line, John Brown & Company, Kriegsmarine, Lamport and Holt, Liverpool, London, Maersk Line, Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), Ministry of War Transport, Motor ship, MV E Evangelia, MV Nelson Star (1942), New Zealand, New Zealand Shipping Company, Nippon Yusen, Ocean liner, Operation Halberd, Operation Pedestal, Operation Substance, Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, P Henderson & Company, P&O Nedlloyd, Port Line, Port of Buenos Aires, Port of London, Río de la Plata, Reefer ship, ..., Rio de Janeiro, Royal Mail Ship, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Siege of Malta (World War II), Sister ship, Spanish language, SS Almeda Star, SS Arandora Star, SS Avila Star, Stanley, Falkland Islands, Submarine tender, The History Press, United Kingdom, Vestey Group, W. Foulsham & Company Limited, World War I, World War II. Expand index (17 more) »
Alfred Booth and Company
Alfred Booth and Company was a British trading and shipping company that was founded in 1866 and traded for more than a century.
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Allies of World War I
The Allies of World War I, or Entente Powers, were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Barracks ship
Barracks ship or barracks barge are terms used to indicate a ship or a non-self-propelled barge containing a superstructure of a type suitable for use as a temporary barracks for sailors or other military personnel.
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Battle of Singapore
The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore—nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East".
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Belfast
Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.
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Ben Line Agencies
Ben Line Agencies (previously Ben Line Steamers) is a Singapore-based shipping agency, operating across Asia.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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British United Airways
British United Airways (BUA) was a private, independentindependent from government-owned corporations British airline formed as a result of the merger of Airwork Services and Hunting-Clan Air Transport in July 1960, making it the largest wholly private airline based in the United Kingdom at the time.
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Burmeister & Wain
Burmeister & Wain was a large established Danish shipyard and leading diesel engine producer headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.
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Clydebank
Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Containerization
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).
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Defensively equipped merchant ship
Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division program established in June 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with an adequate defence against enemy submarines and aircraft.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Ellerman Lines
Ellerman Lines was a UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.
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Empire ship
An Empire ship was one a group of merchant ships given names beginning "Empire" in the service of the British Government during and after the Second World War.
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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Frederick Richards Leyland
Frederick Richards Leyland (30 September 1831 – 4 January 1892) was one of the largest British shipowners, running 25 steamships in the transatlantic trade.
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German invasion of Denmark (1940)
The German invasion of Denmark was the fighting that followed the German army crossing the Danish border on 9 April 1940 by land, sea and air.
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Hamburg Süd
Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft ApS & Co KG – Hamburg Süd for short – ranks among the ten largest container shipping brands worldwide and is part of Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company.
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Harland and Wolff
Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Harrison Line
Harrison Line, officially T&J Harrison, was a shipping line founded by the brothers Thomas and James Harrison in Liverpool, England in 1853.
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John Brown & Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a British marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
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Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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Lamport and Holt
Lamport and Holt was a shipping line based in Liverpool, England.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Maersk Line
Maersk Line is the global container division and the largest operating unit of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate.
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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and comprises the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews.
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Ministry of War Transport
The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources.
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Motor ship
A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine.
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MV E Evangelia
MV E Evangelia is a shipwrecked refrigerated cargo ship at Costinești on the Black Sea coast of Romania.
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MV Nelson Star (1942)
Nelson Star was a refrigerated cargo liner that was built in 1942 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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New Zealand Shipping Company
The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973.
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Nippon Yusen
is one of the oldest and largest shipping companies in the world.
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Ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.
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Operation Halberd
Operation Halberd was a British naval operation that took place on 27 September 1941, during the Second World War.
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Operation Pedestal
Operation Pedestal (Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, "Battle of mid-August"), known in Malta as the Santa Marija Convoy (Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War.
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Operation Substance
Operation Substance was a British naval operation in July 1941 during the Second World War to escort convoy GM 1, the first of the series from Gibraltar to Malta.
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Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant
Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (25 March 1863 – 5 June 1937) was a British businessman and politician, jailed in 1931 for producing a document with intent to deceive.
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P Henderson & Company
P Henderson & Company, also known as Paddy Henderson, was a ship owning and management company based in Glasgow, Scotland and operating to Burma.
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P&O Nedlloyd
P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Limited was an Anglo-Dutch worldwide ocean-going container shipping line, with dual headquarters in London and Rotterdam.
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Port Line
Port Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company, initially formed as the Commonwealth and Dominion Line in 1914, and in operation in one form or another until 1982.
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Port of Buenos Aires
The Port of Buenos Aires (Puerto de Buenos Aires) is the principal maritime port in Argentina.
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Port of London
The Port of London lies along the banks of the River Thames from the capital to the North Sea.
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Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata ("river of silver") — rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers.
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Reefer ship
A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship, typically used to transport perishable commodities which require temperature-controlled transportation, such as fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, dairy products and other foods.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Royal Mail Ship
Royal Mail 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 to the British Royal Mail.
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Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen.
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Siege of Malta (World War II)
The Siege of Malta in the Second World War was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre.
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Sister ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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SS Almeda Star
SS Almeda Star, originally SS Almeda, was a British turbine steamer of the Blue Star Line.
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SS Arandora Star
SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line.
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SS Avila Star
SS Avila Star, originally SS Avila, was a British turbine steamship of the Blue Star Line.
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Stanley, Falkland Islands
Stanley (also known as Port Stanley) is the capital of the Falkland Islands.
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Submarine tender
A submarine tender is a type of ship that supplies and supports submarines.
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The History Press
The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Vestey Group
The Vestey Group (Vestey Group Ltd) (formerly Vestey Brothers) is a privately owned UK group of companies, comprising an international food product business (that includes meats, dairy products, frozen vegetables, bakery products, food services and trading) and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and elsewhere.
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W. Foulsham & Company Limited
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Star_Line
