To: NRx
the new White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, sailed on her first voyage for New York. Semantics, I know. But the New York voyage was not her first. She sailed first from Belfast, Ireland to Southampton.
21 posted on
04/11/2017 9:53:36 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
This happened in Michigan waters back when a tanker full of Amoco premium gas was pulled away from its dock by an American Steamship ore carrier passing closely at speed.
22 posted on
04/11/2017 9:59:24 AM PDT by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
voyages (when going by voyage number system)generally start in the home port and end upon return to home port, regardless of number of ports in between.
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