George Askew (Radium Line)
George Askew may refer to: * George Edward Askew (died 1779), English dramatist * '' George Askew (Radium line)'' tugboat built and operated by the Radium line See also *George Ayscue Admiral Sir George Ayscue (c. 1616 – 5 April 1672) was an English naval officer who served in the English Civil War and the Anglo-Dutch Wars who rose to the rank of Admiral of the White. He also served as Governor of the Isles of Scilly (164 ...

George Edward Askew
George Edward Ayscough (died 14 October 1779) was an English dramatist and traveller. Life Ayscough was the son of Dr. Francis Ayscough, dean of Bristol, by a sister of the first Lord Lyttelton. For some time he held a commission in the Guards. In 1776, he produced at Drury Lane Theatre a play, a version of the ''Semiramis'' of Voltaire, Richard Yates representing the chief character; an epilogue was provided by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The tragedy had eleven representations, and the English author enjoyed three benefits on account of it. On the first performance Captain Ayscough's brother officers attended in great force and secured the success of ''Semiramis''. In the ''Biographia Dramatica Isaac Reed (1 January 1742 – 5 January 1807) was an English writer and Shakespearean scholar. He is best known for collaborating with Samuel Johnson and George Steevens to edit ''The Plays of William Shakespeare'' and publishing a critical edit ...'', Ayscough is described as "a fo ...
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George Askew (Radium Line)
George Askew may refer to: * George Edward Askew (died 1779), English dramatist * '' George Askew (Radium line)'' tugboat built and operated by the Radium line See also *George Ayscue Admiral Sir George Ayscue (c. 1616 – 5 April 1672) was an English naval officer who served in the English Civil War and the Anglo-Dutch Wars who rose to the rank of Admiral of the White. He also served as Governor of the Isles of Scilly (164 ...

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Marine Transportation Services (MTS) formerly Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) is a marine transportation company operating primarily in the Mackenzie River watershed of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta, and the Arctic Ocean using a fleet of diesel tug boats and shallow-draft barges. NTCL filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and its assets were acquired by the Government of the Northwest Territories later that year. History The company was an outgrowth of the competition in the Northwest Territories and Northern Alberta between the new Northern Traders Company and the entrenched Hudson's Bay Company.Ray, Arthur J. (1990) ''The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age'' University of Toronto Press, Toronto, p. 104, Colonel James Cornwall, one of the principals of the Northern Traders Company, ran his first steamer, a stern wheeler '' The Midnight Sun'', on the Lesser Slave River in 1904. The company acted as a kind of subsidiary of the Northern Trading Comp ...
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