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Largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world! Here is the largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world, the new 22,000 ton liner asturia(...)
Largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world! Here is the largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world, the new 22,000 ton liner asturia(...)

Largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world! Here is the largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world, the new 22,000 ton liner asturia(...)

Date4/26/1928
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Original Toronto Star caption: Largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world! Here is the largest and most powerful motor vessel in the world; the new 22;000 ton liner asturias of the royal mail steam new york; berth. The asturias is probably the forerunner of the new type of vessel for general oceanic travel. Her motors are capable of generating 20;000 horse power of energy; and the crafty is complete in every detail.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0014106F
Motor Vessel Georgic. New York, Jan. 8 - (AP) - Britain's mightiest motor liner, the sleek 27.759-ton Georgic, has come back from a bomb-blasted hulk (...)
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First vessel from overseas. First ocean ship to reach Toronto this season was the Swiss registered motor vessel Cassarate which arrived in the harbor (...)
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The boy's own book of boats : including vessels of every rig and size to be found floating on the waters in all parts of the world, together with complete instructions how to make sailing models
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1868
The boy's own book of boats : including vessels of every rig and size to be found floating on the waters in all parts of the world
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1861
A Sailing vessel, especially if it is, as here, a square-rigged wind-jammer, will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The(...)
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Sailing majestically from Toronto Harbor, the brigantine Pathfinder sets out for a cruise on Lake Ontario, carrying most of its 22,000 square yards of sail. She cost $150,000 seven years ago
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Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)
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Shipshape for the season, Crew member Lee Cruickshanks works on the tip of the bowsprit of the Empire Sandy yesterday, getting the vessel shipshape fo(...)
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If you have the skills, bareboating (chartering a sailing vessel and providing your own crew) is a great adventure
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