#pacific liners

[postingcards]

ocean liner rose city leaving astoria postcard ca. 1900s

#postcard #postcards #ocean liners #pacific liners #ss rose city #oregon #sfpdx co

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Tennessee (BB-43), with barge YC-159 alongside, at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, in October 1922. Across the pier is the Canadian Pacific liner RMS Empress of Australia (ex-Empress of China). She was built in 1913 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Tirpitz, before she was taken as a war prize in 1919 and sold to CPL in 1921. She was scrapped in 1952.

Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 44254

#USS Tennessee (BB-43) #USS Tennessee #Tennessee Class #Dreadnought #Battleship #Warship #Ship #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #RMS Empress of Australia #Canadian Pacific Steamships #Canadian Pacific #Ocean Liner #Liner #Puget Sound Navy Yard #Puget Sound #Washington #West Coast #October #1922 #interwar period #my post

[emeraldexplorer2]

1945

#vintage #travel #travel poster #matson lines #ocean liners #cruise ships #vintage ships #pacific ocean

[stone-cold-groove]

Sail the sunny Pacific with the Presidents.

#vintage illustration #vintage advertising #luxury travel #cruise ships #cruise lines #pacific cruises #american president lines #s.s. president cleveland #s.s. president wilson #ocean liners

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Horrific: The Empress of Ireland Wreck 1914 | Documentary

#history #1910s #1914 #empress of ireland #rms empress of ireland #ocean liners #canadian pacific railway #ships #wreck #shipwrecks #oceanliner designs #documentary #Youtube #maritime history

[carbone14]

Paquebot transatlantique RMS Empress of Britain de la Canadian Pacific Steamship Company en construction au chantier naval de John Brown & Company – Clydebank – Ecosse – Grande-Bretagne – 1930

Réquisitionné le 29 novembre 1939 pour assurer du transport de troupes entre le Canada et la Grande-Bretagne, le paquebot fut torpillé et coulé par le sous-marin U-32 au large de l'Irlande du Nord le 28 octobre 1940.

#Et pendant ce temps-là #Marine marchande #Merchant navy #Paquebot #Ocean liner #RMS Empress of Britain #Canadian Pacific Steamship Company #Chantier naval #Shipyard #John Brown & Company #Clydebank #Ecosse #Scotland #Grande-Bretagne #Great Britain #1930

[postcard-from-the-past]

"S.S. Empress of France", Canadian Pacific Liner

Vintage postcard, mailed in 1925

#vintage #photography #canadian #postkarte #carte postale #postal #liner #1925 #briefkaart #s.s. empress #france #postcard #old #empress #photo #ss #pacific #ansichtskarte #sepia #postkaart #ephemera #mailed #tarjeta #historic

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Empress of Asia Funeral Pyre,” Vancouver Province. May 19, 1942. Page 1. ---- Giant Canadian Liner Now Pile of Twisted Steel In East Indies --- Destruction of CPR Luxury Steamship Confirmed --- TOOK TROOPS (By Associated Press) --- MONTREAL, May 19. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia was bombed to destruction off Sumatra February 5, with the troops she was carrying blasting at the Japanese planes with antiaircraft and machine guns until flames drove them off the ship, it was revealed here today. 

Official announcement of the loss said merely that the Asia was destroyed by an air attack while engaged in transporting troops to Singapore. The details of what happened to the former luxury liner were released here in the form of a report to the company from Chief Officer D. Smith. 

The attack that ended in loss of the ship started off Sultan Shoal shortly before noon February 5, Chief Officer Smith reported. The death-blow came while the Asia was in a convoy of four transports escorted by the British cruiser Exeter. OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The official announcement read: 

"The admiralty have granted permission to Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited to announce that the Empress of Asia was sunk by air attack in the Far East whilst engaged in transporting troops to Singapore." 

Registered at Vancouver, the Empress of Asia ran between that port and ports in the Orient. Built in Glasgow in 1913 she was 570 feet long, 68 feet Wide and had a depth of 42 feet. 

SECOND LARGEST SHIP. The Empress of Asia was the second largest ship in the Canadian Pacific fleet whose loss has been announced so far in the war. 

Most serious loss was that of the 42,000-ton Empress of Britain, flagship of the fleet, in the Atlantic early in the war. In addition, four other ships in the "Beaver" class of freighters operated by the company have been announced as lost the Beaverdale, Beaverburn, Beaverbrae and Beaverford. Also lost was the liner Montrose, which had been converted into an auxiliary cruiser. 

The Empress received her death blow from a formation 6 Japanese bombers, the chief officers said, while in a convoy of four transports escorted by the British cruiser Exeter. 

The convoy was passing through the narrow Banka Straits when the first attack, by 27 bombers, came. The Empress was last in line and came in for a severe attack, but escaped any direct hits although bomb splinters damaged lifeboats and deck planking. The lethal attack came while the convoy was approaching Sultan Shoal, 16 miles from Keppel Harbor and had to slow down.

“CANADIANS TELL STORY: C.P.R. Luxury Liner Target of 80 Bombs,” Vancouver Province. May 19, 1942. Page 1. ---- AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, May 19. - With the official announcement today of the loss of the Empress of Asia, the story of how the 16,909-ton Canadian Pacific Steamship liner was beached and burned while transporting troops to Singapore may be told as it was given newsmen here by 14 Canadian survivors of the disaster landed April 18.

The Canadians said they were only six miles outside besieged Singapore when Japanese dive-bombers spotted the troop-laden transport and from a height of about 25,000 fort began to plaster the ship with bombs. 

(At Montreal, however, Chief Officer D. Smith reported the liner was lost off Shultan Shoal not far from Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies.) 

"About 80 in all were dropped," Owen Gillett of Vancouver, 18-year-old survivor, said, "and five of them were direct hits." Four of the five struck well forward, near the bridge, but one crashed into the galley, causing a fire. 

TURNED INTO PYRE. Other fires sprang up and soon flames were roaring through the liner, turning her into a funeral pyre for many of the 44 Canadians in the crew. However, about 100 seamen escaped, along with the majority of the 2500 Imperial troops aboard. 

Escape by lifeboats was impossible as they too were burned and crew members said they owed their lives to the Australian sloop Yarra. The little fighting ship sidled up to the blazing behemoth and took off the men, all the time keeping her guns pumping lead into the bomber-filled skies. 

The Yarra has gone down since playing her part in rescuing men from the stricken Empress. The Australian sloop was sunk during the Allied withdrawal from the Dutch East Indies. 

Attempts to save the Asia were futile, out of control, she drifted into a mine field and finally ran aground, the fire dying down only when nothing was left but her twisted steel skeleton.

#battle of singapore #singapore #fall of singapore #troop ship #ocean liner #canadian pacific steamship company #steamship #empress of asia #imperial japanese navy air service #大日本帝國海軍航空隊 #dutch east indies campaign #bombing raid #aerial bombardment #british empire #world war II #canada during world war 2 #pacific war #montreal #halifax

[chrisframeofficial]

Podcast Awards 🥇

If you’re enjoying The Big Cruise Podcast please consider taking 2 minutes to vote for us in the Australian Podcast Awards! We’d really appreciate your support.

#cruise ship #Big Cruise Podcast #cunard #p&o #p&o cruises #ocean liner #pacific encounter #cruise #titanic

[greathoughtsphilosopy]

Makeup tutorial at 5 am: So guys this eye liner is super easy to apply ,from Wet N Wild and it so youll start rightt at the edge of the lid and work your way down Hungry albatross over the pacific ocean catching flying fish meat out of the air after a military test detonation: Bro! Luckyyy 😋

[anew-jackson]

*tryinng* to rewatch pacific rim these one liners and plot points are so bad 😭 why would the kaiju care if you interface with them you can’t use a freight ship like a baseball bat without it breaking why do all of these assholes care more about personal glory than stopping the literal end of the world why does the big robot need two minds why does the kaiju emp knock out the electricity of the metal men and the military base but not any of the japanese city around them why does anyone think a wall would work why is the metalman pilot calibration fight test a fight test but it’s “not a fight it’s a dialogue” but it is actually a literal fight with sticks omfg 😭

[postingcards]

pacific steamer beaver postcard ca. 1910s

#postcard #postcards #ocean liners #pacific liners #ss beaver #1910s #sfpdx co

[lonestarbattleship]

Launch of SS Virginia at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia on August 18, 1928.

"The 'Virginia' and her sister ships 'California' and 'Pennsylvania' have set new standards in sea-going comfort as well as in marine engineering."

She served the Panama Pacific Line, part of the American Line Steamship Corp, from New York to California via the Panama Canal route. In 1937, changing fees to cross the canal and other factors led to her sisters and her to be sold to the US Maritime Commission and refitted to make her fireproof and other safety features were added as per federal regulations. She was renamed SS Brazil and carried passengers and cargo from New York to South America from 1938 to 1941 and 1948 to 1958. During WWII she served as a Troop ship and returned soldiers home after the war. She was scrapped in 1964.

"Launching of the All-Electric Liner 'Virginia'" by Walter L. Greene, commissioned by General Electric.

LIFE Magazine Archives: link

#SS Virginia #Ocean liner #newport news shipbuilding #Panama Pacific Line #August #1928 #painting #interwar period #my post

[godstrayed]

before you interact please read the post! / mutuals only.

hello! it’s that time again i try to sell myself as a potential writing partner. i have written these in the past and been successful in occasionally finding roleplay partners who are interested in the same sorts of things as me. so i am looking for people who want to world build with me. i really like discussing plots, headcanons, and anything that can make me understand your muse better! i love sharing memes, drabbles, not roleplaying linearly and tossing around multiple threads! i don't need many people to write with but i really prefer to have a handful of people who i know well, am invested in their muses/feel super comfortable with my knowledge of their muses & pingpong my annoying ideas at them easily.

i tend to write lengthier things but i am okay with any length as long as it’s not one-liners! i also have zero interest in writing with someone who i will only have one thread with and never speak to again. 💀 i just rather focus on threads that will grow outside of just one single reaction! i like to think i am pretty easy to toss shit around with but i am a little shy so sometimes it takes a while for the ball to start rolling but once it is i am full-sending that shit.

so if you’re interested please GIVE THIS A LIKE and I WILL APPROACH YOU after i check out your muses/rules, if i haven't gotten around to it already! i am 100% gonna write the starter for whatever we come up with! i just ask if i take the time to write the starter that you reply to it at least once. failure to do so will result in me soft blocking since it happens so often and is super discouraging (and a waste of my time tbh). that might seem harsh but we could always write together when you do have the time or availability to reply.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ME: can call me nic! 29. cst. they/them. selective. slow replies due to work and other responsibilities. willing to make new muses for people if i really like an idea/plot! emphasis on slow activity! please keep in mind that i take a whole lot of time sometimes.

THINGS I REALLY LIKE: pacific rim, the 100, the walking dead, baldur's gate 3, queens gambit, any apocalyptic setting, harry potter series, alice in borderlands, video games, league of legends, any mcu movie, x-men series, fantasy shows/games, fairies, hunger game series, graceling & demon slayer.

TYPES OF AUS: any type of apocalypse setting, fantasy, crime aus, soulmates au, period/era verses, dystopian, slice of life, mythological, anything with werewolves, royal aus, vigilantes, & mutant aus.

VIBES: angst (tbh most of my blog is angst), fluff, horror, cliches, tropes welcome, & the occasional smut when it fits the mood.

CHARACTERIZATION: i exist in extremities. i like writing really bad villains with zero remorse or softer characters with a more righteous morality. i enjoy writing against almost everything. i am open to exploring most things and you can find out more extensively my habits through my rules.

open to any type of relationship: family/friendship/romantic/enemies. doesn’t have to be romantic. however, if it is – i always write with anyone so gender/fc/etc doesn’t every bother me. write who you want to!

be prepared to: communicate, toss around ideas, explore plots & dynamics, share your interests with me as well, & be adored / have your muse(s) adored by me & mine.

  links: muses & laws. memes. verses. wanted plots.

#&. ooc. #&. starter call. #( listen i will really be sadge if you all like it and dont reply to my starters ) #( i swear it happens 80% of the time ) #( but I AM WILLING TO KEEP TRYING ) #( this aint so much a starter call as it is a rp buddy call ) #( do not reblog. )

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.

The mod isn't 100% sure about this movie, please let her know about how you all feel about it. Is it genuinely scary? Is it stupid?

#deep rising (1998) #science fiction #body horror #monster #1990s #united states #north american movie #horror #movies #poll #more than 50% havent heard

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Empress of Ireland Sinks in REAL TIME | 14 Minutes of Horror

#history #1910s #1914 #maritime history #empress of ireland #rms empress of ireland #ships #ocean liners #canadian pacific railway #Youtube #oceanliner designs