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SS Dora
A number of steamships have carried the name ''Dora'', including: * , launched in 1880 for use in the coastal trade between California and Alaska * ''Dora'', original name of , launched in 1889 for use by the London and South Western Railway * ''Dora'' (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon * SS ''Dora'', subsequently renamed , a Design 1022 ship launched in 1919 as SS ''Inspector'' and converted into a tanker * SS ''Dora'', initially launched in 1898 as SS Vega, was used by Zionist organizations to transport Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Palestine Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and th ... in 1939 References {{shipindex, name=Dora, SS Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora (sternwheeler)
''Dora'' was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River on the southern coast of Oregon from 1912 to 1923. This vessel should not be confused with a number of other craft of the same name operating at the same time in other parts of North America. Design and construction ''Dora'' was built at Randolph, Oregon in 1910 by the Herman Brothers. Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing (1966), at pages 174 and 391. The steamer was long, with a beam of and depth of hold of . The overall size of the vessel was 77 gross and 64 registered tons. Power was furnished by twin steam engines, each driving a pitman arm connected to a crankpin on the sternwheel, with 55 total indicated horsepower for both combined. Total required crew was shown as two.''Dora'' was built for Russell Panter, who named the vessel after his daughter.King, Chuck, Kirk, Linda, and Prola, Carolyn, ''Myrtle Creek and Vicinity: 1893-195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design 1022 Ship
Hog Islanders is the slang for ships built to Emergency Fleet Corporation designs number 1022 and 1024. These vessels were cargo and troop transport ships, respectively, built under government direction and subsidy to address a shortage of ships in the United States Merchant Marine during World War I. American International Shipbuilding, subsidized by the United States Shipping Board, built an emergency shipyard on Hog Island at the site of the present-day Philadelphia International Airport. No ships were produced in time to participate in World War I, but many ships were active in World War II, with roughly half of those produced at Hog Island being sunk in that conflict. During the planning stage, 120 ship names based on the "aboriginal inhabitants of the United States" were selected by First Lady Edith Wilson (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson), although most were changed before completion. Emergency Fleet Corporation Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) was formed by the US Shipping Board to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Vega
A number of steamships have carried the name ''Vega'', including *, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sailed in 1878 in ''Vega'' from Gothenburg along the coast of Siberia to Yokohama on his discovery of the Northeast Passage. *SS ''Vega'', launched in 1897 as ''Gambia'' and renamed in 1915, was sunk in 1916 by a U-Boat near Barcelona. *SS ''Vega'', a steamship, launched in 1897 at Flensburg as ''Nordland'' for the Danish company Nordsöen, Copenhagen. ''Vega'' struck a mine and sank on 20 December 1939 *SS ''Vega'', launched in 1898 by Murdoch & Murray, Port Glasgow, was initially a Russian-flag passenger-cargo steamship, then became ''Tjaldur'' with the Danish line DFDS in 1904, and was then sold in 1939 to Panamanian-flag owners as ''Dora'' and was used by Zionist organizations to transport Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Palestine in 1939. In June 1942 it was sold to Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'', rebuilt in Naples, and used as a supply ship to North Africa until shelled and sunk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist
Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the Jews, Jewish people, pursued through the colonization of Palestine (region), Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, with central importance in Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian people, Palestinian Arabs as possible. Zionism initially emerged in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab Revolt, Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British Empire, British Egyptian Expeditionary Force, forces drove Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces out of the Levant. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and French Third Republic, France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Homeland for the Jewish people, Jewish "national home" in Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was then establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
