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  • Thumbnail for James Brooke
    Sir James Brooke, Rajah[note] of Sarawak KCB (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo...
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    Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG, full name Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke (26 September 1874 – 9 May 1963) was the third and last White Rajah of the Raj...
    9 KB (896 words) - 15:40, 21 September 2024
  • and Kuching. She was named after the 3rd Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. At the outbreak of war with Japan the Royal Navy requisitioned and...
    8 KB (726 words) - 06:22, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Gallic (1918)
    SS Gallic was a cargo steamship built in 1918. During her career, she had six different owners and sailed under the flags of the United Kingdom, Panama...
    7 KB (415 words) - 05:06, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Fort Mercer
    SS Fort Mercer was a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker built by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., at Chester, Pennsylvania in October 1945. SS Fort Mercer (hull number...
    6 KB (548 words) - 05:09, 28 June 2024
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    Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. not cited. ISBN 1-85044-275-4. "Launched 1920: ss MAUDIE". Clydesite. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved...
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    Heartsease, died of cholera. Meanwhile, the two children of Rajah James Brooke also died on board the SS Hydaspes, possibly due to cholera. In 1888, an outbreak...
    91 KB (9,669 words) - 16:44, 17 September 2024
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    USS West Bridge (redirect from SS War Topaz)
    Design 1013 cargo ship in the United States Navy during World War I. She was begun as War Topaz for the British Government but was completed as West Bridge...
    30 KB (3,052 words) - 21:14, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Irish Willow (1917)
    the few ships which maintained Irish trade during World War II. At the outbreak of World War II, sometimes referred to in Ireland as "The Emergency",...
    48 KB (5,552 words) - 06:21, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS War Toronto
    SS War Toronto was a small freighter built in Toronto, in 1918, by Toronto Dry Dock & Ship Building Company Limited. She was one of 72 cargo vessels built...
    4 KB (315 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for SS War Kitimat
    SS War Kitimat was a freighter built in Canada for wartime service during the First World War. She was steam-powered, with a hull made of wood. She was...
    4 KB (275 words) - 17:42, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for SS War Baron
    War Baron was a steam cargo ship built in 1916–17 by Northwest Steel Company of Portland for Lauritz Kloster of Stavanger. The ship was launched as Vesterlide...
    10 KB (1,134 words) - 22:30, 30 March 2024
  • SS Gairsoppa was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1919 and sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941. 85 of her complement were killed, and...
    24 KB (2,435 words) - 19:04, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet
    1939 under the leadership of the German zoologist and SS-officer Ernst Schäfer. Nazi Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler wished to use the reputation of the...
    42 KB (5,402 words) - 06:34, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of aircraft carriers of World War II
    This is a list of aircraft carriers of the Second World War. Aircraft carriers serve as a seagoing airbases, equipped with a flight deck and facilities...
    70 KB (1,135 words) - 16:07, 30 April 2024
  • Persier was a 5,382 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1918 as War Buffalo for the British Shipping Controller. In 1919, she was sold to Belgium and renamed...
    14 KB (1,243 words) - 12:15, 24 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ramage & Ferguson
    (1923), a steam yacht for Prince Youssouf Kamal of Egypt SS Vyner Brooke (1928), for the Rajah of Sarawak, named after Sir Charles Vyner Brooke Mercator...
    9 KB (1,155 words) - 18:48, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Delphic (1925)
    built by the Harland & Wolff shipyards in 1916 to serve the war effort under the name of War Icarus, belonging to the series of "Type G" cargo ships. Launched...
    8 KB (830 words) - 05:02, 19 August 2024
  • Genova (1953 film) (category 1950s war romance films)
    Genova is a 1953 Indian war romance film, directed by F. Nagoor and produced by E. P. Eppan. The film stars M. G. Ramachandran, B. S. Saroja and P. S...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Henry Ismay
    British Admiral, Montrose, Ismay, Estrella, Pembroke Castle, Hausquina, Rajah, SS British Navy, Cairnsmore, Santon, Kirkwood, Delhi, Merwanjee Framjee,...
    11 KB (1,483 words) - 07:31, 31 August 2024
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