Today in Victorian History Steamship "Great Western" makes her maiden voyage from Bristol, England, to New York (1838) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_…
[Crosspost] Continuing construction on M/V Mark W. Barker for the Interlake Steamship Company at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon, Wisconsin. Believed to be the first Great Lakes ship built on the Great Lakes since 1983. (November 2020) [1280x720]
Continuing construction on M/V Mark W. Barker for the Interlake Steamship Company at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon, Wisconsin. Believed to be the first Great Lakes ship built on the Great Lakes since 1983. (November 2020) [1280x720]
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa…
City Park image of proposed expansion of Great Western Brewing Company brewery
Chart shows school closures (all levels) in the world due to COVID as of today. Canada in great company with Ukraine, Philippines, India (very controversial there as schools have essentially been shut for almost two years) and Krygystan. No major western country on this list. Shame. twitter.com/rupasubramany…
Something is brewing for Saskatoon’s Great Western Brewing Company globalnews.ca/news/846661…
The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company’s sidewheeled steamship Seeandbee underway on the Great Lakes, United States in 1940. This ship would later be converted into the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine. [1856 x 1264]
Rare photo of the SS Great Britain, a hidden gem of Bristol. This relatively unknown piece of Bristol's history is a steamship from the 19th century.
Great White Fleet United Fruit Company Steamship Service Brochure by J. Reulerd, 1919 [Advertisement] imgur.com/VA2qsqi
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, City of Para, May 26th, 1900, Breakfast
Western Transit Co Chicago Labor. Brass tag from steamship? reddit.com/gallery/nk95xv
Handsome 1936 map of Alaska prepared for the Alaska Steamship Company. Great detail; 50+ megapixel image. [8,901px × 5,999px] bigmapblog.com/2012/the-a…
Whatever you think of El Salvador, isn’t it great that people have now got the option to subvert companies like Western Union?
I know the option has existed long before now, but the media now will have gone a long way in helping people normalise Bitcoin. And pushing adoption making it easier.
I read $6 billion is sent across border into El Salvador from people sending money back to their families. Fuck you money, where the little guy has for too long had to pay exorbitant fees to companies like Western Union.
I hope the likes of Western Union are running scared already!
Launch of the Steamship Seeandbee, which would be converted into the Great Lakes training carrier USS Wolverine in 1942, Wyandotte, Michigan, Nov 9 1912 [2700x2096] imgur.com/HLrMn7f
Whaleback Steamship Christopher Columbus, thought to have carried more passengers during her career than any other vessel on the Great Lakes, Chicago IL, ~1911 imgur.com/bCABOnd
Launch of the Steamship Seeandbee, which would be converted into the Great Lakes training carrier USS Wolverine in 1942, Wyandotte, Michigan, Nov 9 1912 [2700x2096] imgur.com/HLrMn7f
🔥 Mildura Shipwreck, Exmouth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 GPS position 21° 47.14' S 114° 10.00' E - In June 1907, SS Mildura, a 1,394–ton steamship carrying a cargo of bullocks, bound for Fremantle from Cambridge Gulf, was wrecked off the north point of the North West Cape. instagram.com/drethedrone…
The American Ship Building Company launching the sidewheeled steamship Seeandbee at Wyandotte, Michigan, United States, Nov 9, 1912. This ship would later be converted into the USS Wolverine.[1,024x793]
House flag of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand
Whaleback Steamship Christopher Columbus, thought to have carried more passengers during her career than any other vessel on the Great Lakes, Chicago IL, ~1911 imgur.com/bCABOnd
Launch of the Steamship Seeandbee, which would be converted into the Great Lakes training carrier USS Wolverine in 1942, Wyandotte, Michigan, Nov 9 1912 [2700x2096] imgur.com/HLrMn7f
Whaleback Steamship Christopher Columbus, thought to have carried more passengers during her career than any other vessel on the Great Lakes, Chicago IL, ~1911 imgur.com/bCABOnd
Very interesting article from 1993 involving a murder, and a fraud scandal ending with Dan Pena ousted as President of Great Western Resources, the Oil company he founded and first made his fortune.
Steamship companies advertised free land and prosperity to impoverished Europeans in the late 1800’s. My ancestors came to Canadian prairie from the Ukraine, one carrying a cast iron stove on his back the last 30 miles of the journey.
Today in Victorian History The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms (1839) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cun…
This Day in Victorian History The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world (1843) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_…
Found a pair of dead stock Great Western Garment Company straight leg jeans.
Strasburg's Great Western #90 and Steamtown USA's Canadian Pacific #1278 doubleheader a High Iron Company excursion out of Jim Thorpe on the Central Railroad of New Jersey as relief power for George Hart's CP #1238 and #1286 in April of '68.
Wooden steamship 'War Chikat' on stocks at Western Canada Shipyards, likely 1918. [1237 x 1709]
With an overcast sky and strong winds, the Mesabi Miner of Interlake Steamship Company departs Superior, WI with a load of coal from MERC. Captain gave a rather nice salute too which made it just that much better
What companies other than Great Western and Protection Plus life have a guaranteed life policy that coverage can be obtained between age 40-44 with no medical and health questions?
United States Steamship Company advertisement at Tokyo Disneysea.
Capt. Edward G. Crosby, a Milwaukee veteran of the Civil War, founded a steamship company on Lake Michigan but became famous for refusing to put enough lifeboats for all the passengers on his steamers. Aboard the Titanic, he was unable to find a place on a lifeboat, and he sank with the ship.
What life insurance companies other than Great Western and Protection Plus life have a guaranteed life policy that coverage can be obtained between age 40-44 with no medical and health questions?
My husband was recently diagnosed with SCLC and we are looking to add some additional life insurance but have been struggling to find policies since he is 42.
As the Mesabi Miner prepares to leave, the American Spirit of the American Steamship Company prepares for its final swing into the slip where she would load herself with taconite pellets off of CN Railroad’s DMIR dock 6
Steamship NARENTA, launched in 1919 at Belfast, Ireland / built for Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / sold to Japan in 1939, torpedoed and sunk by US submarine in 1943. [1280×892]
Western Airlines stewardesses picket company ticket counter at L.A. Airport to protest recent firing of a stewardess who was four pounds overweight, October 21, 1974
