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  2. MV Bermuda - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. United Federation of Teachers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Furness Bermuda Line - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Enterprise (slave ship) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. SS Queen of Bermuda - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. ITF Seafarers' Trust - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. USS New York (LPD-21) - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft carried. Launch or land. two CH-53E Super Stallion. two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. four CH-46 Sea Knight. four AH-1 SeaCobra or. four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. USS New York (LPD-21) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, and the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the state of New York.

  9. SS Duchess of York (1928) - Wikipedia

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    SS Duchess of York was one of a class of four steam turbine ocean liners built in Glasgow in 1927–29 for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd 's transatlantic service between Britain and Canada. In the Second World War Duchess of York was converted into a troop ship. In 1943 an attack by enemy aircraft killed 27 people aboard her and left the ship ...