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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 4 February 1925:
PACIFIC ROUTES
WHICH WAS FIRST STEAMER?
LONG DEBATED QUESTION
The records of early steam navigation in the Pacific are difficult to trace, and the question which was the first steamer to cross that ocean took some time to decide. The evidence seems to be with the paddle steamer Golden Age…
… the Golden Age and Monumental City cross[ed] in 1854 [and] some smaller paddle boats staggered across in the ’sixties, to the goldfields of Australia…
…She arrived at Liverpool from New York in 1853, and from there made a record voyage to Australia.
On her transpacific voyage she left Sydney on 11th May, 1854.… she was built of wood, and … the whole hull was diagonally braced with iron.…
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The Golden Age was a side-wheel steamer, and was the property of the New York and Australian Steam Navigation Company, which proposed to build five more like her for trade on the route she pioneered. But her voyage was not a financial success.
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paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#EnergyTransition: France experiences wind propulsion boom in 2024 offshore-energy.biz/france-exp

"The French wind propulsion industry witnessed strong growth in 2024. The country’s sailing fleet now comprises eleven large cargo #ships, with four new wind-powered vessels added to the fleet in 2024... What is more, a total of fifteen vessels featuring #WindPropulsion are under construction"

#ClimateChange#Renewables#Wind
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Judder

After some time of trying mastodon, I quite like it here and will probably stay so it's maybe time for an introduction:
I'm a student in physical #oceanography in northern germany and mainly here for finding interesting research related content. Second interest is just general #opensource stuff & programming and third is politics.
For the research part I'm mostly a fan of #hydrothermalvents , #oceans , #climate , the #arctic , #antarctic , #glaciers , #seaice but also #ships and more.

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David Megginson

#TIL that Great Lakes freighters ("lakers") served in Atlantic convoys during the Second World War, conditions they definitely weren't built for (they're basically powered barges for bulk transport in fresh water).

SS Magog, from Canada Steamship Lines, was sunk by a U-boat in 1940 about 100 km west of Ireland. All of the crew survived.

cslships.com/over-100-years-of

#history#WW2#ships
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