Picture No | 10216352 |
Date | 1901 |
Description | Ice-breaking Railway Ferry Steamer S.S. 'Scotia' |
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Photograph of the then recently launched ice-breaking ferry steamer 'Scotia', built to carry a locomotive and nine Pullman cars across the Straits of Canso in Nova Scotia. She was designed as an ice-breaker in order to cope with the large masses of ice that drift into the straits during the winter months.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 1901, page 670 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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