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SS Athinai, the Glossary

SS Athinai was a Greek passenger steamship that was built in England in 1908 and sank in the North Atlantic in 1915.^[1]

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Anchor Line (steamship company)

Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company that was founded in 1855 and dissolved in 1980.

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Assistant United States Attorney

An assistant United States attorney (AUSA) is an official career civil service position in the U.S. Department of Justice composed of lawyers working under the U.S. Attorney of each U.S. federal judicial district.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Bail

Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process.

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Bridgeport Evening Farmer

The Bridgeport Evening Farmer, also briefly known as the Daily Bridgeport Farmer and the Daily Republican Farmer, was a newspaper based out of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1866 to 1917.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Chartering (shipping)

Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer.

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Chief engineer

A chief engineer, commonly referred to as "Chief" or "ChEng", is the most senior licensed mariner (engine officer) of an engine department on a ship, typically a merchant ship, and holds overall leadership and the responsibility of that department.

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Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, and commonly named "Transat"), typically known overseas as the French Line, was a French shipping company.

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Distress signal

A distress signal, also known as a distress call, is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help.

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Ellis Island

Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Explosive mine

A mine is an explosive placed underground or underwater that explodes when disturbed, or when remotely triggered.

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In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement.

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Fireman (steam engine)

A fireman, stoker or boilerman, is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine.

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First Balkan War

The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire.

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Fort Wadsworth

Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower bays, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay, Manhattan, and beyond.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Grand juries in the United States

Grand juries in the United States are groups of citizens empowered by United States federal or state law to conduct legal proceedings, chiefly investigating potential criminal conduct and determining whether criminal charges should be brought.

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Greek Americans

Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikanoí Ελληνοαμερικάνοι Ellinoamerikánoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Hellenic Army

The Hellenic Army (Ellinikós Stratós, sometimes abbreviated as ΕΣ), formed in 1828, is the land force of Greece.

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Hellenic Navy

The Hellenic Navy (HN; War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces.

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Immigration Act of 1907

The Immigration Act of 1907 was a piece of federal United States immigration legislation passed by the 59th Congress and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on February 20, 1907.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

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John C. Knox (New York judge)

John Clark Knox (October 13, 1881 – August 23, 1966) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1918 to 1966 and its first chief judge from 1948 to 1955.

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John Priestman

Sir John Priestman, 1st Baronet (22 March 1855 – 5 August 1941) was a British shipbuilder and charitable benefactor.

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Kalamata

Kalamata (Καλαμάτα) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after Patras, and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region.

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Kingdom of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος) was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic.

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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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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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Marconi Company

The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987.

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Maritime call sign

Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats.

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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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Meningitis

Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.

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Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a town in North Yorkshire, England.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. SS Athinai and ocean liner are ocean liners.

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Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.

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Patras

Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Picric acid

Picric acid is an organic compound with the formula (O2N)3C6H2OH.

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Port of Palermo

Port of Palermo (Porto di Palermo) is a port serving Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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Port of Piraeus

The Port of Piraeus (Λιμάνι τουΠειραιά) is the chief sea port of Piraeus, located on the Saronic Gulf on the western coasts of the Aegean Sea, the largest port in Greece and one of the largest in Europe.

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Potassium chlorate

Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen, with the molecular formula KClO3.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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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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Robert Fay

Imperial German secret agent Lieutenant Robert Fay arrived in New York in April 1915 with a mission to sink freight ships on the East Coast of America during World War I. He was arrested in October 1915.

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Rudder

A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, airship, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (usually air or water).

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São Miguel Island

São Miguel Island (Portuguese for "Saint Michael"), nicknamed "The Green Island" (Ilha Verde), is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.

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Ship registration

Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented.

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Shipping agency

A shipping agency, shipping agent, or ship agency is the term used to refer to the appointed companies that handle operational and procedural (legal) requirements for a commercial vessel's call at a port for the purposes of cargo handling (loading/discharging), emergency calls, repairs, crew changes, or ship demolition, and protect the general interests of their principals on behalf of ship owners, disponent owners, or charterers in an objective manner.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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SS Themistocles (1907)

SS Themistocles was a Greek passenger steamship that was built in England in 1907 as Moraitis, renamed Themistocles in 1908, and scrapped in Italy in 1933. SS Athinai and sS Themistocles (1907) are ocean liners, passenger ships of Greece, steamships of Greece and troop ships.

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

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1910s fires in North America

1915 fires

Passenger ships of Greece

Ship bombings

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