Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club was a now-defunct race track and the old polo field which runs alongside the first fairway of the present course. The members regularly engaged in fox hunts, and one member enthusiastically wrote at the time: "The hounds only arrived last week from England, and came on the steamship 'Glamorgan,' and they were landed in fine condition, showing that they were well cared for on the steamer, not one indicating the least sign of mange, which dogs are apt to contract at sea. The hounds are of the bluest of 'blue blood,' and were personally selected by Lord Willhoughby...
...largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled to one of the nicest possible parks in the United States. It is close to the Potomac, and it is close to the seat of some of our troubles and some of the action." End of speech...
...somewhere around 75 cruise ships in service. Since a first-class liner costs at least $75 million to build from scratch, fleet owners customarily renovate aged vessels, packing them with tiny staterooms. The General W.P. Richardson, originally intended to carry troops, is now in its sixth incarnation as Eastern Steamship Lines' Emerald Seas...
...facilities for handling container ships; today 90% of all cargo passing through the port moves in vans. Says Robert Calder, executive director of the Boston Shipping Association: "The shift from freighters to container ships is no less a revolution than the transition from the sailing ship to the steamship...
...after that landmark encounter, Duncan Cryder, who had been a member of Vanderbilt's party, sounded out another Southampton resident named Samuel Parrish, who was then vacationing in Italy, about the possibility of introducing golf in Southampton. Parrish hurriedly arranged for Willie Dunn to get a passage on a steamship so he could come to Southampton and begin building a golf course at once...