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Transportation Disasters in 1875: Maritime Incidents in 1875, Railway Accidents in 1875, SS Gothenburg, Comet, SS Pacific, SS Deutschland(English)

Transportation Disasters in 1875: Maritime Incidents in 1875, Railway Accidents in 1875, SS Gothenburg, Comet, SS Pacific, SS Deutschland(English)

          
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maritime Incidents in 1875, Railway Accidents in 1875, Ss Gothenburg, Comet, Ss Pacific, Ss Deutschland, Ss Schiller, Hms Vanguard, Css Georgia, List of Shipwrecks in 1875, Dunbrody, Kildwick and Cross Hills Rail Crash. Excerpt: The SS Gothenburg was a steamship that operated along the British and then later the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. In February 1875, she left Darwin, Australia en route to Adelaide when she encountered a cyclone-strength storm off the north Queensland coast. The ship was wrecked on the Barrier Reef north-west of Holbourne Island on 24 February 1875. Survivors in one of the lifeboats were rescued two days later by the Leichhardt, while the occupants of two other lifeboats that managed to reach Holbourne Island were rescued several days later. Twenty two men survived, while between 98 and 112 others died, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries. The Gothenburg was commissioned in 1855 following her construction at Lungley's building yards in Millwall, London. She was a 501 ton, 197-foot (60 m) long vessel, with a 120 horsepower (89 kW) coal-burning engine. She was rigged as barquentine, with her funnel set well aft between the main and mizzen masts. She was fitted with four lifeboats, two port and two starboard. Her first owner, the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, operated her between Irongate Wharf, near the Tower of London, and Sweden. In 1857, she was acquired by the Union Castle Line and renamed the RMS Celt. In June 1862, McMerkan, Blackwood and Co. of Melbourne purchased her for the Australian trade and in that year she made a protracted voyage from England to Australia by sail. She was one of the most modern vessels working around the Australian coastline in the 186... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14963051


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157966371
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Maritime Incidents in 1875, Railway Accidents in 1875, SS Gothenburg, Comet, SS Pacific, SS Deutschland
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1157966373
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 91 gr


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