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The Creque Marine Railway, formerly the "St Thomas Marine Repair Facility", is an inclined-plane ship railway on Hassel Island, in the bay of Charlotte Amalie off the coast of St. Thomas Island, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.[1]

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  1. 13 relations: Beam engine, Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies, Hamburg, Hamburg America Line, Hassel Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, National Register of Historic Places listings in the United States Virgin Islands, Patent slip, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands National Park, World War II.

  2. 1840s establishments in Denmark
  3. 1840s establishments in the Caribbean
  4. Buildings and structures in the Danish West Indies
  5. Historic American Engineering Record in the United States Virgin Islands
  6. Railway lines opened in 1844
  7. Transportation in the United States Virgin Islands
  8. Virgin Islands National Park

Beam engine

A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

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Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

Charlotte Amalie, located on St. Thomas, is the capital and the largest city of the United States Virgin Islands.

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Danish West Indies

The Danish West Indies (Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Virgin Islands (Danske Jomfruøer) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with; Saint John (St.) with; and Saint Croix with.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hamburg America Line

The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847.

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Hassel Island, U.S. Virgin Islands

Hassel Island (also sometimes Hassell Island) is a small island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a United States territory located in the Caribbean Sea.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in the United States Virgin Islands

This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Patent slip

A patent slip or marine railway is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and a mechanism to haul the ship, attached to the cradle, out of the water onto a slip.

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Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen.

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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas (Sankt Thomas, Santo Tomás, Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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Virgin Islands National Park

The Virgin Islands National Park is an American national park preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, as well as more than of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

1840s establishments in Denmark

  • Creque Marine Railway

1840s establishments in the Caribbean

Buildings and structures in the Danish West Indies

Historic American Engineering Record in the United States Virgin Islands

Railway lines opened in 1844

Transportation in the United States Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands National Park

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creque_Marine_Railway