Gray Line Sightseer passing through U. S. Government Locks, second largest locks in the world. The locks make it possible for large ships to come into the heart of the city to Lake Union and Lake Washington as well as bringing the small craft into a snug harbor.
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( Kah- lock-ah-lah, Chinook for Flying Bird) is the world's first completely Streamlined Motor Ferry. The hull is divided into twenty-five water-tight compartments, making it virtually unsinkable. Length over all 276 feet; beam over all 55.8 feet; passenger capacity 2000; automobile capacity 110; has 5 decks; horsepower main engine 3000; cruising speed 18 knots. The Kalakala is designed primarily to meet the needs of steadily increasing passenger and automobile traffic on beautiful Puget Sound.
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Year is 1968. Kent Markham, a math teacher at John Gorrie Junior High School in Jacksonville, Florida, designed and built a one man submarine. He calls it a semi-dry submarine, be- cause the upper part of your body is out of the water at any depth and you are breathing freely without wearing a mouthpiece or mask, although you can wear either if you choose. It's a vehicle sportsmen — or even serious divers — might enjoy using.
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In her first sea trial, the SRN-4, largest hovercraft in the world , skimmed over the waves at 60 knots. Twenty-eight passengers were on board for the trials, though the craft will carry more than 250, plus 30 cars, in ferry service.
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Probably the largest ship model ever built has been sent to this country from The Netherlands for display at boat shows. The model is 40 feet long and weighs 1 1/2 tons.
It is a 1:20 size reproduction, complete to the last porthole and lifeboat, of the SS New Amsterdam, flagship of the Holland America Line fleet.
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Crowded docks in biggest sailing week of year are filled (from front) by Independence, America, United States, New York, Liberte, Queen Mary, Mauretania.
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FIREPROOF and unsinkable, the new hospital ship of the St. John's Guild, New York City, represents the maximum in safety for passengers afloat. The ship will be used to take the sick and poor children, together with their mothers, on health giving cruises in New York harbor and up the Hudson river.
There are 25 separate compartments in the watertight subdivision of the craft, more than enough to keep the vessel afloat in the event the hull is crushed in a collision. The ship could be cut in two at any point along her length, and both sections would remain afloat and on an even keel.
The entire hull and all furniture and interior appointments are made of metal or other fireproof materials.
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Nosing the Norwegian freighter Norbryn to. ward a Quebec dock, the pilot prepared for a routine landing. But instead of stopping, the Norbryn, fighting strong winds and a running tide, plowed steadily onward, cut a slice in the dock and, as the tide ran out, hung helplessly suspended. At high tide four tugboats pulled her off, with a six-inch hole in her bow.
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In 1937, the Matson line, a shipping company that still exists today, offered fantastic cruises to Hawaii, and also to New Zeeland and Australia via Samoa and Fiji. For those cruises the company had 4 ships: SS Lurline, SS Mariposa, SS Monterey and SS Malolo.
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Night was falling as the British liner Athenia, Montreal bound, plowed steadily westward across the North Atlantic. Just nine hours before, Great Britain had declared war on Germany; three hours earlier France had followed England's lead. At 7:45 p.m. a terrific explosion rent the Athenia's side, sending terror into the hearts of the passengers and crew. A waterspout leaped high into the air, to fall back over the decks and lifeboats. Passengers were hurled over the ship rails into the sea. Water surged into the engine and boiler rooms.
Far off across the waters some of the passengers saw the grim outline of a submarine. Its gun, they said, fired a single shot at the mainmast before vanishing into the night. The sea around the mortally wounded Athenia filled with lifeboats, swimmers, and wreckage. Around midnight the Knute Nelson, ‘a Norwegian freighter, ar-rived, followed shortly by the yacht, the Southern Cross. Early the next morning, the Athenia rose on her bow in a last convulsive throe, and then plunged stern-first to the bottom of the sea, the first victim to fall prey to submarine in the present war.
Within the next 21 days, forty-two merchant ships of all nations, with a total tonnage of 184,909, had been sunk by torpedoes, mines, and shell fire, and the world found itself wondering just how big a part submarines would play in this war.
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Launched in Saint Louis, this excursion steamer, is an example of the late1930s-early 1940s trend of streamlining. Claimed by its owners to be the largest river excursion boat in existence, the craft is nearly nonsinkable due to 72 watertight compartments in the hull. It has five decks, four for the passengers and one for the crew, and is composed almost entirely of metal and glass. It was designed by Mazie Krebs.
Inside it had air conditioned cabins, a 2.000 seat ballrom with a band stand, a bar, a concession stand, dinign areas, lounges, a large powder room on the mezzanine was named and styled for Greta Garbo, a cafeteria and a soda jerk.
Sadly in 2010 this iconic river boat was scrapped.
Below it's an image from its launch day.
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