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Greytown was a town on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, which in 1854 was bombarded and destroyed by the US ship 'Cyane'.
A negro had been shot by a steamship captain in May, and the mayor of Greytown ordered the captain's arrest. The passengers of the steamship resisted, among them Borland, the US Minister. The next day Borland was assaulted on the street. In July the 'Cyane' was despatched to the town. Commander Hollins sent to the mayor demanding immediate payment of the extortionate demands of a transit company, with which the town authorities had quarrelled. This was refused. Hollins opened fire and destroyed the town.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (Commodore Vanderbilt) was an American capitalist. He was born in 1794 and died in 1877. The son of a small farmer he began in business at the age of sixteen by ferrying passengers and goods between New York and Staten Island. In 1851 he established a steamship line between New York and California via Nicaragua. In 1855 he established a line between New York and Havre. In 1857 he turned his attention to railways, and became one of the foremost 'railroad kings' in America. In 1867 becoming president of the New York Central Railway. He founded Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee.
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Sir Thomas Sutherland was a British shipowner. He was born in 1834 at Aberdeen and died in 1922. Educated at the university of Aberdeen he entered the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, representing the company in China for some years. He helped to found the Hong Kong docks and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and became a member of the legislative council of the colony. He was chairman of the P & O line from 1880 until 1914 and member of parliament for Greenock from 1884 until 1900. He was created a KCMG in 1891 and GCMG in 1897.
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SS is an abbreviation for Screw Steamer
SS is an abbreviation for Steamship
SS is an abbreviation for Saints
SS is an abbreviation for Sunday School
SS is an abbreviation for Same Size
SS is an abbreviation for San Salvador
SS is an abbreviation for Social Security
SS is an abbreviation for Spin Synchronous
SS is an abbreviation for Split Stream
SS is an abbreviation for Support Segment
SS is an abbreviation for Support Systems
SS is an abbreviation for Surface to Surface
SS is an abbreviation for Sworn Statement
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The Aberdeen Line was a British steamship company founded in 1824 and plying between London and Australia via the Cape.
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The Bibby Steamship Line was an old English shipping company established in the early 19th century by John Bibby and trading between Liverpool, England and Colombo and Rangoon.
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The Castle Line was a British steamship line which commenced operations in 1872. It was subsidised by the Cape Parliament in 1872 for the carriage of letters and in 1876 took the postal contract jointly with the Union Line with which it amalgamated in 1900.
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The Chargeurs Reunis was a French steamship line established at Paris in 1872, running between Havre and Indo-China, east Africa and South America.
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The City Line was an English steamship company plying between Glasgow and Liverpool, London and Bombay and Karachi. It was founded in 1839 by George Smith and Sons and sold in 1901 to J R Ellerman.
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The Clan Line was a British steamship line begun in 1878 conducting a fortnightly service from Liverpool and Glasgow to Karachi and Bombay. In 1881 and 1882 the business was expanded and started calling also at south and east African ports, Colombo, Madras and Calcutta. In 1893 the service was further extended with a service from New York to south and east African ports.
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