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This article provides an overview of the transport infrastructure of Latvia.
Baltic may refer to:
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SS Birma was a British-built transatlantic passenger ship. She was built in 1894 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, United Kingdom, as Arundel Castle and later went through numerous ownership and name changes, including coming into the hands of the Russian American Line. In 1912, Birma was one of the ships to respond to the sinking of RMS Titanic. She was broken up in 1924 following acquisition by a German line after a liquidation sale.
References
- ↑ "Russian American Line". The Ships List. 2005-02-03. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ↑ "Baltic American Line". The Ships List. 2005-02-03. Archived from the original on 2002-08-15. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ↑ "Baltic America Line History and Ephemera" . Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ↑ Gibbs, CR Vernon (1970). Western Ocean Passenger Liners 1934–1969. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson. p. 174.