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The Wigham Richardson shipbuilding company was named after its founder, John Wigham Richardson (1837-1908), the son of Edward Richardson, a tanner from Newcastle upon Tyne, and Jane Wigham from Edinburgh.
SS Deutschland was a 21,046 gross registered ton (GRT) German HAPAG ocean liner which was sunk in a British air attack on May 3, 1945 when it was in the process of being converted as a hospital ship. All people on-board the Deutschland survived the attack, though two accompanying vessels sank with great loss of life.
RMS Baltic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line that sailed between 1904 and 1933. At 23,876 gross tons, she was the world's largest ship until 1905. She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross tons, dubbed The Big Four.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants, William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett, Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G. Howland and S.S. Howland. These merchants had acquired the right to transport mail under contract from the United States Government from the Isthmus of Panama to California awarded in 1847 to one Arnold Harris.
The SS Cleveland was a steam-powered passenger ship in the early twentieth century. It was operated by the Hamburg America Line and ran between the United States and Germany bringing many immigrants to the Us.
RMS Empress of Scotland was the later name of SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, an ocean liner built in 1905–1906 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin for the Hamburg America Line. The ship regularly sailed between Hamburg and New York City until the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914. At the end of hostilities, re-flagged as USS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, she transported American troops from Europe to the United States. For a brief time Cunard sailed the re-flagged ship between Liverpool and New York.
The Big Four-class ocean liners were a quartet of early-20th-century 20,000-ton ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line, to be the largest and most luxurious ships afloat. The group consisted of Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and Adriatic.
USS F. J. Luckenbach (ID-2160) was a cargo ship and troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. SS F. J. Luckenbach was built as a commercial cargo ship at Quincy, Massachusetts, by Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation for Luckenbach Steamship Company of New York City. Launched on 15 September 1917, she was delivered to Luckenbach on 28 November 1917. She then came under the control of the United States Shipping Board. The Shipping Board transferred her to the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 9 January 1918. Assigned Identification Number 2160, she was commissioned the same day as USS F. J. Luckenbach with Lieutenant Commander W. McLean, USNRF, in command.
Algonquin was an ocean liner built in 1926 for the Clyde Mallory Line. She was involved in a collision in 1929 and rescued survivors from another in 1935. Repaired after a fire in 1940, she was requisitioned for use as a troopship and later a hospital ship. She served until 1946 when she was laid up, finally being scrapped in 1957.
Three steamships of the Horn Line carried the name Ingrid Horn.
SS Bonnie Dundee was a 193/121-gross-ton Australian steamship which sank after a collision with the steamship SS Barrabool off Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, on 10 March 1879.
Several steamships have borne the name Stella:
Several steamships have borne the name Main:
SS Nidd was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1900.
The Type C5 ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II breakbulk cargo and later a container ship for containerization shipments. The first type C5 class ship was a class of ships constructed and produced in the United States during World War II. The World War II C5 class ship was dry bulk cargo ship built by Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Maryland. Bethlehem Steel built 8 ship in this bulk cargo class and four orders were canceled. The C5 class ship has a DWT of 24,250 and was 560 feet long. The C5 was mainly used as iron ore carriers. The C5 was needed to replace other ships that sank during WW2. First in her class was the SS Venore, USMC #1982, delivered on 20 July 1945. Type C5 class ship designed to fill the need to move iron ore from Santa Cruz, Chile, to Sparrows Point, Md., through the Panama Canal, a round-trip trip 8700 nautical miles.
Post World War 2 four ships were given C5 class type C5-S-78a, these were roll-on/roll-off container ship built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. of Pascagoula, Mississippi and operated by the Moore-McCormack Lines. The C5-S-78a had a deadweight of 16,000 tons.
The Type V ship is a United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) designation for World War II tugboats. Type V was used in World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War. Type V ships were used to move ships and barges. Type V tugboats were made of either steel or wood hulls. There were four types of tugboats ordered for World War II. The largest type V design was the sea worthy 186-foot long steel hull, V4-M-A1. The V4-M-A1 design was used by a number of manufacturers, a total of 49 were built. A smaller steel hull tugboat was the 94-foot V2-ME-A1, 26 were built. The largest wooden hull was the 148-foot V3-S-AH2, which 14 where built. The smaller wooden hull was the 58-foot V2-M-AL1, which 35 were built. Most V2-M-AL1 tugboats were sent to England for the war efforts under the lend-lease act.. The type V tugs served across the globe during WW2 including: Pacific War, European theatre and in the USA. The SS Farallon and other type V tugs were used to help built Normandy ports, including Mulberry harbour, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and made 9 round trips to Normandy to deliver Phoenix breakwaters.
