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The United Federation of Teachers ( UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
Enterprise. (slave ship) The Enterprise was a United States merchant vessel [1] active in the coastwise slave trade in the early 19th century along the Atlantic Coast. Bad weather forced it into Hamilton, Bermuda waters on February 11, 1835 while it carried 78 slaves in addition to other cargo. It became the centre of a minor international ...
ITF Seafarers' Trust. The ITF Seafarers' Trust is a charitable maritime trust located in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1981 by the Executive Board of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), a global federation of transport workers' unions with over 4.6 million worker members. The stated mission of the Trust is to ...
The Queen of Bermuda returned to the New York-Bermuda service after the war. To replace the Monarch of Bermuda, Furness, Withy ordered a smaller ship. the 13,834 GRT Ocean Monarch, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs at Walker in 1951. In October 1961 the Queen of Bermuda was sent to Harland and Wolff in Belfast for a refit, to modernize the ship.
Speed. 17 knots (31 km/h) Capacity. 691 passengers: 616 first class. 75 second class. MS Bermuda was a passenger motor ship that Furness, Withy 's Furness Bermuda Line operated between New York and Bermuda from 1928 until 1931. She was damaged by two fires in 1931, the second of which put her beyond economic repair.
Sir Edward Nicolls KCB (c. 1779 – 5 February 1865) was an Anglo-Irish officer of the Royal Marines.Known as "Fighting Nicolls", he had a distinguished military career. According to his obituary in The Times, he was "in no fewer than 107 actions, in various parts of the world", and had "his left leg broken and his right leg severely injured, was shot through the body and right arm, had ...
SS Queen of Bermuda was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that belonged to Furness, Withy & Co Ltd. Its Furness Bermuda Line subsidiary operated her between New York and Bermuda before and after the Second World War. During the war she served as first an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship .
That job moved her to New York in 2001; what was meant to be a short stint in the U.S. turned into two decades here. After KPMG, she assumed finance leadership positions at several companies ...