Steamships

Builder: Wm Denny & Bros 
Where Built: Dumbarton, Scotland 
Date Built: 1885 
Tonnage: 2466 GRT 
Propulsion: Single screw steam. Triple expansion 16 knot 
Owners & Previous Names: 1885-1931 USSCo 

SS Minneapolis was a British ocean liner of 13,401 gross register tons (GRT) in operation between 1900 and 1918. She was torpedoed by SM UC-35 195 nautical miles (361 km) east of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea on 23 March 1916 with the loss of 12 of her crew, while she was travelling from Marseille, France to Alexandria, Egypt in ballast.

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SS Minnehaha was a 13,443-ton ocean liner built by Harland & Wolff and launched on 31 March 1900. Operated by the American-owned Atlantic Transport Line, she was the sister ship of Minneapolis, Minnetonka, and Minnewaska.

In her first year of operations, the Minnehaha collided with and sank a tug in New York Harbor on 18 September 1900. The tug suffered two fatalities.[1]

SS Minnetonka was a British transatlantic ocean liner that was torpedoed and sunk on 30 January 1918 by the German submarine U-64 in the Mediterranean Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) east north east of Malta, while she was travelling from Port Said, Egypt to Marseille, France with a cargo of mail, resulting in the loss of four lives.

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The map describes the S. S. Oceana as largest, fastest, most luxurious and the only exclusively first-class steamer to Bermuda. Superb accommodations for over 600 first class passengers. Electric fans in every room; many staterooms with brass beds; suites-de-luxe with private baths; finest promenade deck in the world. Orchestra, promenade dances, gymnasium, wireless. Only Bermuda with submarine safety signals.

SS Oceana was a P&O passenger liner and cargo vessel, launched in 1887 by Harland & Wolff of Belfast and completed in 1888. Originally assigned to carry passengers and mail between London and Australia, she was later assigned to routes between London and British India. On 16 March 1912 the ship collided in the Strait of Dover with the Pisagua, a 2,850 GRT German-registered four-masted steel-hulled barque. As a result Oceana sank off Beachy Head on the East Sussex coast, with the loss of 17 lives.

SS Parthia (1870–1956) was an iron-hulled transatlantic ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland. Her sister ships were the Abyssinia and Algeria. Unlike her two sisters, Parthia was smaller, built in a different shipyard and had a slightly different funnel arrangement. The Parthia was retired by Cunard in 1883 and sold to John Elder & Co., who subsequently transferred her to the Guion Line.

SS Pretoria was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1897 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the second of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that were built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.

In 1919 HAPAG surrendered Pretoria to the United States as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies. She became a United States Navy troop ship and was used to repatriate American Expeditionary Forces troops from Europe.

USS Quaker City was a heavy, 1,428 long tons (1,451 t) sidewheel steamship leased by the Union Navy at the start of the American Civil War. She was subsequently purchased by the navy, outfitted with a powerful 20-pounder long rifle, and assigned to help enforce the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America. 

The first USS Trenton was a wooden-hulled screw steamer, classified as a screw frigate, in the United States Navy. She was named for Trenton, New Jersey.

Trenton was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1875; launched on 1 January 1876; sponsored by Miss Katherine M. Parker; and commissioned on 14 February 1877, Captain John Lee Davis in command.

The Trenton was the first US naval vessel to use electric lights, which were installed in 1883.

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