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The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine.
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Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamship. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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steamship
noun
steam·ship
ˈstēm-ˌship 
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