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    the New Jersey Steamship Navigation and Transportation Company in December 1838 for around US$60,000. From 1835 to 1840, the Lexington was the fastest...
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  • New York City Lexington-class aircraft carrier, the first operational aircraft carrier class in the United States Navy Steamship Lexington, which burned...
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  • SS Lexington may refer to: SS Lexington (1835), an American steamship that caught fire and sank in January 1840 with the loss of all but 4 of the 143 on...
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    The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2)...
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    steamship route in 1900, ending the existence of the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company. A New Haven subsidiary, the New England Steamship Company...
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    the president, secretary, treasurer, and commodore of the Knickerbocker Steamship Company. Most boatmen felt that Van Schaick "was unjustly made a scapegoat...
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  • Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and was renamed Lexington. In 1941, the ship was sold to the Norlasco Steamship Company of New York and renamed Norlantic....
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    played a major role in Kentucky's economy. Louisville was a major port for steamships in the nineteenth century. Today, most barge traffic on Kentucky waterways...
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  • built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City. The...
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    the SS Admiral Sampson, a U.S. cargo and passenger steamship, when it was rammed by the steamship, Princess Victoria, in fog near Seattle, Washington...
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