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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís.
—Laura Gómez, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2025
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís.
—Laura Gómez, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamship. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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steamship
noun
steam·ship
ˈstēm-ˌship 
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