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Founded in 1952, SHAME aims to promote and encourage the knowledge and preservation of historical and archaeological heritage in Molsheim and the surrounding area.
Merci à Gilles K.
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Braemar Castle was built and launched in 1952 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast (Northern Ireland) with a tonnage of 17029grt, a length of 576 ft 5 in, a beam of 74ft 3in and a service speed of 17.5 knots. She was employed in the Round Africa service. At the end 1965 she was sold for breaking at Faslane (Scotland) on 6 January 1966.
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Postcard published by Delacauw-Stellemans, Ostende, Nº 70.
The Prinses Josephine Charlotte ferry, 113.05 m long and 15.97 m beam, with capacity for 100 vehicles and 700 passengers, was built in 1949 at the Cockerill Hoboken shipyard in Antwerp. She sailed the Ostend - Dover route from 3 June 1949, to 29 June 1952. After being sold to a Greek shipping company, she returned to Ostend in 1969 to cover the route between that port and Harwich (England). In November 1970, she was incorporated into the Sealink consortium. She was withdrawn from service in 1974, and on 8 March 1976, she was sold to the Blanca Shipping Company of Panama, which changed its name to Leto. In 1977, it was acquired by the Greek shipping company G. Kausouniadis, which renamed it Athens Express, which used it for domestic voyages and for routes from Piraeus to Cyprus and Syria. After several accidents, it was scrapped in Eleusis Bay, Greece, in 1984.
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Postcard published by Verlag Bockelmann, Langenargen, Nº 777 (1960s).
The MS Deutschland was built in Deggendorf (Niederbayern) by the Deggendorfer Werft und Eisenbau Gesellschaft, and was put into service on 4 June 1935. Between 1949 and 1952 it sailed under the name Lindau, and from 1952 it regained its original name, which it maintained until 1970, when it was named Überlingen II. She was demolished at the end of 2005. She had a length of 56.30 m, a width of 11.80 m and a draft of 1.65 m. Its speed was about 25 km/h, and it could accommodate 800 people. Between 1935 and 1945 it was owned by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and between 1945 and 1994, by the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1994 the property passed to the Bodensee Schiffsbetriebe GmbH.
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Postage stamp issued by the Soviet Union in 1981.
The Lenin riverboat began construction at Gorky's Krasnoe Sormovo shipyard in 1952, under the name Stalin. Work was stopped between 1953 and 1955, after the death of Stalin, and resumed in 1958. Named Lenin, this elegant ship, powered by diesel and electric engines, was delivered in 1959 to the shipping company VORP (Volzhskoje Obedinjonnye Retchnoje Parochodstvo - Volga United River Shipping Company), and was assigned to the long regular line between Moscow and the Caspian Sea via the Moscow Canal, the Oka River, Nizhny-Novgorod and the Volga River to Astrakhan.
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Postcard published by Pan American World Airways (1952).
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Advertising postcard.
The Virginia de Churruca ship was built at the Unión Naval de Levante shipyard and put into service in May 1949 for the Elcano National Company under the name of Conde de Argelejo, and since its delivery it was leased to Compañía Trasatlántica Española, which acquired it in property in 1952 and renamed it Virginia de Churruca. In 1973 it was sold to the Compañía Transmediterránea, which changed its name to Isla de Formentera. She was scrapped in late 1978.
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Advertising postcard published by the Compañía Transatlántica Española.
On December 14, 1946, the ship Explorador Iradier, commissioned by the Compañía Transmediterránea, was launched at the Elcano shipyard in Valencia. The ship made its first test trip to Palma de Mallorca on September 13, 1948, and in August 1952 it was acquired by the Compañía Transatlántica Española and renamed Satrústegui. She went on to cover the line between the Spanish ports in the Mediterranean and Venezuela, Central America and the Antilles, with calls at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In 1973, due to the loss results due to competition from the plane, the ship, with the new name Isla de Cabrera, was moored in the port of Barcelona, where on June 30 of the same year it suffered a serious fire, and on September 26, given the impossibility of repairing it, it was decided to scrap it, which was carried out in Castellón, where it had been towed.
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Advertising postcard.
The Monterey was built by Bethlehem Steel of Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1952 as the Free State Mariner "Mariner"-class cargo ship and completely rebuilt at Willamette Steel in Portland, Oregon, in 1956 as the 365-passenger luxury liner for the Matson Line service in the South Seas. After successive sales, in 1994 she passed into the hands of the Italian shipping company Flotta Lauro, which became Mediterranean Shipping Cruises. In 2006, renamed Monte, she was transferred to Alang (India) for scrapping.
MSC was founded in Naples in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte and began operations with two ships, which covered an operational merchant line between the Mediterranean and Somalia. The company expanded through the acquisition of second-hand cargo ships. By 1977, the company was operating in northern Europe, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. Business expansion continued through the 1980s; by the end of the decade, MSC was operating shipping lines to North America and Australia. In 1989, MSC acquired the cruise operator Lauro Lines, which was renamed MSC Cruises in 1995. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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