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Lamport and Holt was a UK merchant shipping line.^[1]

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British companies established in 1845
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Action of 4 April 1941

The action of 4 April 1941 was a naval engagement fought during the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Albion House, Liverpool

Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England.

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Alexander Stephen and Sons

Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Glasgow, on the River Clyde and, initially, on the east coast of Scotland.

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Alfred Booth and Company

Alfred Booth and Company was a British trading and shipping company, founded in 1866 and traded for more than a century. Lamport and Holt and Alfred Booth and Company are companies based in Liverpool and Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Alfred Holt

Alfred Holt (13 June 1829 – 28 November 1911) was a British engineer, ship owner and merchant. Lamport and Holt and Alfred Holt are holt family.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Andenes

is the administrative centre of Andøy Municipality which is located in the Vesterålen district of Nordland county, Norway.

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Andrew Leslie (shipbuilder)

Andrew Leslie (1818–1894) was a Scottish shipbuilder.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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Armistice of 22 June 1940

The Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, France by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic.

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Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Asunción

Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.

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Austin & Pickersgill

Austin & Pickersgill is a shipbuilding company formed in Sunderland in 1954.

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Austro-Hungarian Navy

The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary.

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Bakkavör

Bakkavor Group plc (originally Bakkavör) is an international food manufacturing company specialising in fresh prepared foods.

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Bank Line

The Bank Line was a British commercial shipping line that was established in 1905 by Andrew Weir. Lamport and Holt and Bank Line are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Barque

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Ben Line Agencies

The Ben Line or Ben Line Steamers, Limited was a Scottish shipping company based in Leith, Scotland founded in 1825 which was primarily involved in the Far East to Europe trade. Lamport and Holt and Ben Line Agencies are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Blue Funnel Line

Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. Lamport and Holt and Blue Funnel Line are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom and holt family.

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Blue Star Line

The Blue Star Line was a British passenger and cargo shipping company formed in 1911, being in operation until 1998. Lamport and Holt and Blue Star Line are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade.

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Breeches buoy

A breeches buoy is a rope-based rescue device used to extract people from wrecked vessels, or to transfer people from one place to another in situations of danger.

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Brest, France

Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.

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Brig

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.

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British Cyprus

British Cyprus (Greek: Βρετανική Κύπρος; Turkish: Britanya Kıbrısı) was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially from 1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony.

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Brocklebank Line

The Brocklebank Line (formally named Thos. and Jno. Brocklebank) was an English shipping line that operated in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lamport and Holt and Brocklebank Line are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Butt of Lewis

The Butt of Lewis (Rubha Robhanais) is the most northerly point on the Island of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Cape Race

Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)

The Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados) is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil.

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Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century.

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Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Compagnie Maritime Belge

The Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) is one of the oldest Antwerp ship-owners.

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County Waterford

County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge) is a county in Ireland.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Cruise ship

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.

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D. and W. Henderson and Company

David & William Henderson and Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding company, based on Clydeside.

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Dardanelles

The Dardanelles (lit; translit), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Helle), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.

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Dominica

Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.

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Dr. Oetker

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Dumbarton

Dumbarton (Dumbairton, Dumbartoun or Dumbertan; Dùn Breatann or Dùn Breatainn, meaning 'fort of the Britons') is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.

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Eagle Island, County Mayo

Eagle Island (Gaelic: Oileán sa Tuaidh) is a small uninhabited island at the north end of the Mullet Peninsula in Erris off the north west County Mayo Atlantic Ocean coast in Ireland.

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Empire of Brazil

The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828.

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Empire ship

An Empire ship is a merchant ship that was given a name beginning with "Empire" in the service of the Government of the United Kingdom during and after World War II.

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Evening Express (Scotland)

The Evening Express is a daily local newspaper serving the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Fastnet Lighthouse

Fastnet Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Flag of Argentina

The national flag of the Argentine Republic, often referred to as the Argentine flag (bandera argentina), is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue and white.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor

The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, also known as Kurier (German for courier) to the Allies, is a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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French Algeria

French Algeria (Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France.

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Fritz X

Fritz X was the most common name for a German guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II.

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Furness Withy

Furness Withy was a major British transport business.

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Gdynia America Line

Gdynia-America Shipping Lines S.A. (Gdynia America Line - GAL) was a Polish-Danish joint stock company based in Gdynia, established in 1930 under the name of the Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company Limited (PTTO) in order to mark the Polish presence on the Atlantic; in 1934 transformed into Gdynia-America Shipping Lines.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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Georg von Trapp

Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.

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George Holt (merchant)

George Holt (1825 – 3 April 1896) was a Victorian ship owner, merchant and art collector from Liverpool. Lamport and Holt and George Holt (merchant) are holt family.

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German auxiliary cruiser Thor

Thor (HSK 4) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II, intended for service as a commerce raider.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenock

Greenock (Greenock; Grianaig) is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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Harland & Wolff

Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil.

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Hebburn

Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Houlder Line

Houlder Line was a number of related British shipping companies originally established by the Houlder brothers. Lamport and Holt and Houlder Line are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Ilhabela

Ilhabela (Portuguese for Beautiful Island) is an archipelago and city situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Korvettenkapitän

Korvettenkapitän is the lowest ranking senior officer in a number of Germanic-speaking navies.

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La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district.

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Land's End

Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.

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Leça da Palmeira

Leça da Palmeira is a former civil parish in the municipality of Matosinhos in the Greater Porto area, Portugal.

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Leixões

The Port of Leixões (Porto de Leixões) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto.

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Les Casquets

Les Casquets or (The) Casquets is a group of rocks eight miles (13 km) northwest of Alderney in the Channel Islands; they are administered by the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

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Liberty ship

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program.

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Lifeboat (shipboard)

A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.

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Light cruiser

A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship.

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Limited company

In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

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List of Liberty ships (Je–L)

This section of List of Liberty ships is a sortable list of Liberty ships—cargo ships built in the United States during World War II—with names beginning with Je through L.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool City Council

Liverpool City Council is the local authority for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.

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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (LR), is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Maritime flag

A maritime flag is a flag designated for use on ships, boats, and other watercraft.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.

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Mary Soames

Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, (15 September 1922 31 May 2014) was an English author.

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Master mariner

A master mariner is a licensed mariner who holds the highest grade of seafarer qualification; namely, an unlimited master's license.

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Málaga

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Merchant raider

Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels.

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Mine Head Lighthouse

Mine Head Lighthouse is an excellently preserved operational 19th century lighthouse in Old Parish, County Waterford, Ireland.

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Ministry of War Transport

The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources.

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Motor ship

A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine.

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Mumbai Harbour

Mumbai Harbour (also English; Bombay Harbour or Front Bay, Marathi Mumba'ī bandar), is a natural deep-water harbour in the southern portion of the Ulhas River estuary.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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National Congress of Brazil

The National Congress (Congresso Nacional) is the legislative body of Brazil's federal government.

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Naval mine

A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Norwegian campaign

The Norwegian campaign (8 April 10 June 1940) involved the attempt by Allied forces to defend northern Norway coupled with the resistance of the Norwegian military to the country's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.

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Observation balloon

An observation balloon is a type of balloon that is employed as an aerial platform for gathering intelligence and spotting artillery.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans.

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Operation Torch

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

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Oran

Oran (Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria.

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Ottoman Egypt

Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517.

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Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant

Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (25 March 1863 – 5 June 1937), known as Sir Owen Philipps between 1909 and 1923, was a British businessman and politician, jailed in 1931 for producing a document with intent to deceive.

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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.

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Pedro II of Brazil

Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (O Magnânimo), was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years.

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Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.

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Port of Antwerp

The Port of Antwerp is the port of the city of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Port of Buenos Aires

The Port of Buenos Aires (Puerto de Buenos Aires) is the principal maritime port in Argentina.

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Port of Famagusta

The Port of Famagusta is a seaport in Famagusta, Cyprus.

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Port of Lisbon

The Port of Lisbon (Portuguese: Porto de Lisboa) is the third-largest port in Portugal, mainly on the north sides of the Tagus's large natural harbour that opens west, through a short strait, onto the Atlantic Ocean.

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Port of Manchester

The Port of Manchester was a port in Salford, North West England, until its closure in 1982.

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Port of Montevideo

The Port of Montevideo (Puerto de Montevideo), in the northern part of the Old City of Montevideo, Uruguay, is one of the major ports of South America and plays a very important role in the economy of Uruguay.

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Port of Rio de Janeiro

The Port of Rio de Janeiro (Porto do Rio de Janeiro) is a seaport in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil located in a cove on the west shore of Guanabara Bay.

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Port of Salvador

The Port of Salvador is a seaport located in All Saints Bay in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

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Port of Santos

The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: Porto de Santos) is in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Port of Southampton

The Port of Southampton is a passenger and cargo port in the central part of the south coast of England.

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Port of Vigo

Port of Vigo (Porto de Vigo, Puerto de Vigo) is located in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Price war

A price war is a form of market competition in which companies within an industry engage in aggressive pricing strategies, “characterized by the repeated cutting of prices below those of competitors”.

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Protectionism

Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands.

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Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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RAF Mount Pleasant

RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.

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Raylton Dixon

Sir Raylton Dixon (8 July 1838 – 28 July 1901), was a shipbuilding magnate from Middlesbrough on the River Tees who served as Mayor of Middlesbrough.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata, also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda.

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Rear admiral

Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.

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Recession

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a general decline in economic activity.

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Reefer ship

A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship typically used to transport perishable cargo, which require temperature-controlled handling, such as fruits, meat, vegetables, dairy products, and similar items.

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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul ("Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.

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River Blackwater, Essex

The River Blackwater is a river in Essex, England.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.

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River Tees

The River Tees, in England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea in the North East of England.

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River Wear

The River Wear in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.

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Rockall

Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Royal Liver Building

The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England.

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Royal Mail Case

The Royal Mail Case or R v Kylsant & Otrs was a noted English criminal case in 1931.

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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. Lamport and Holt and Royal Mail Steam Packet Company are Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom.

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Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago

The Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo) is a group of 15 small islets and rocks in the central equatorial Atlantic Ocean.

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Sampson Low

Sampson Low (18 November 1797 – 16 April 1886) was a bookseller and publisher in London in the 19th century.

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San Gregorio, Chile

San Gregorio is a commune in the far south of Chile.

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Sardinia

Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, often referred to simply as Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Greenock on the River Clyde.

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Scuttling

A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.

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Ship management

Ship management is the activity of managing marine vessels.

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Shipping Controller

Shipping Controller was a post created by the Lloyd George Coalition Government in 1916 under the New Ministries and Secretaries Act (6 & 7 George 5 c.68) to regulate and organize merchant shipping in order to supply the United Kingdom with the materials to fight the war following severe losses.

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Shipping line

A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships.

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Shipyard

A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sister ship

A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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SS Czar

SS Czar was an ocean liner for the then Russian American Line before World War I. In 1920-1930, the ship was named Estonia for the Baltic American Line, then named Pułaski for the PTTO (later Gdynia America Line) and as a UK Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as Empire Penryn after World War II.

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St George's Channel

St George's Channel (Sianel San Siôr, Muir Bhreatan) is a sea channel connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Celtic Sea to the southwest.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.

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Sudley House

Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Lamport and Holt and Sudley House are holt family.

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Superheater

A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.

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Swan Hunter

Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom.

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Total loss

In insurance claims, a total loss or write-off is a situation where the lost value, repair cost or salvage cost of a damaged property exceeds its insured value, and simply replacing the old property with a new equivalent is more cost-effective.

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Troopship

A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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Tuskar Rock, Ireland

Tuskar Rock is a group of rocks topped by a lighthouse off the southeast coast of County Wexford, Ireland.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Unie van Suid-Afrika) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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Vessel safety survey

Vessel safety surveys are inspections of the structure and equipment of a vessel to assess the condition of the surveyed items and check that they comply with legal or classification society requirements for insurance and registration.

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Vestey Holdings

Vestey Holdings, formerly Vestey Group and previously also known as Vestey Brothers, is a privately owned UK group of companies comprising an international business focused mainly on food products and services. Lamport and Holt and Vestey Holdings are companies based in Liverpool.

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References

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