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Johanna Veenstra Johanna Veenstra (1894–1933) was the first missionary of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) to go to Nigeria. She was born on Thursday, April 19, 1894, on Hopper Street in Paterson, New Jersey. Her parents were William Veenstra, later a Christian Reformed pastor, and Cornelia Anna De Hoop. In 1915 she was challenged by Karl Kumm of the Sudan United Mission (SUM) to be a missionary in Africa. On October 2, 1919, she left New York City on the "Mauretania" for England; on December 31, 1919, she took another ship to Africa, arriving in Lagos in January 1920. In February 1921, she arrived at her station in Lupwe, which is near Takum, now in Taraba State. Two years later Johanna Veenstra assumed leadership of the work in Lupwe. She was engaged primarily in medical work and in preaching. During her ministry in Lupwe, a number of people especially of the Kuteb people became Christian and also became more educated. The roots of the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria (CRCN) and the Reform Church of Christ in Nigeria (RCCN) Headquarters in Takum, Taraba State Nigeria lay in part in the work of Johanna Veenstra.
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RMS Mauretania (1906) RMS "Mauretania" was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the British Cunard Line, and launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the completion of  in 1911 as well as the fastest until "Bremen" 's maiden voyage in 1929. "Mauretania" became a favourite among her passengers. After capturing the Eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, she claimed the Westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season. "Mauretania" would hold both speed records for twenty years.
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Imperator-class ocean liner The "Imperator" class ocean liners were a series of three ocean liners designed for the Hamburg America Line, commonly known as "HAPAG". These three ships were commissioned by the chairman of HAPAG Albert Ballin. Namely the "Imperator" (1912), the "Vaterland" (1913) and the largest, the "Bismarck" (1914). These liners were over 50,000 tons, sported three funnels and had a length ranging from 906 ft (276 m) to 955.8 ft (291.3 m). To this day, the "Vaterland" is the largest passenger ship operated by a German shipping company.
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RMS Atlantic RMS "Atlantic" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of  on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of "Titanic" in April 1912.
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RMS Majestic (1914) RMS "Majestic was a White Star ocean liner working on the North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Line liner SS "Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship in the world until completion of  in 1935.
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SS Leviathan SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934. The second of three sister ships built for Germany's Hamburg America Line for their transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as "Vaterland" for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed "Leviathan". She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
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SS Principessa Mafalda The SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship entered NGI's South American service between Genoa and Buenos Aires in 1909. At the time of her completion she was the largest Italian passenger ship afloat. The "Mafalda" was known for her luxury and was the preferred mode of travel for such celebrities of the day as Carlos Gardel.
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SS Golconda (1887) SS "Golconda" was a 5,874 gross ton passenger ship built in 1887 by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, England. She was 422 ft long with a beam of 41.8 ft and had two funnels and was operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. In 1915 six hundred German civilian internees from the camp in Ahmednagar were transported to London on the "Golconda", from where they were repatriated via the Netherlands. A further group of five hundred Germans were repatriated in a similar way in March 1916. "Golconda" struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on 3 June 1916, 5 nmi south east by east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk ( ) with the loss of nineteen lives. She was lost while on a voyage from Tees and London to Calcutta with general cargo.
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MV Africa Mercy The MV "Africa Mercy is a 152.00 m ,  GT Hospital Ship belonging to the humanitarian organization Mercy Ships. Converted from the rail ferry MS "Dronning Ingrid in 2007, she is currently the world's largest non-governmental floating hospital. It is the newest ship to enter service with Mercy Ships, which has been outfitting and operating hospital ships that serve developing nations since 1978.
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HMS Ben-my-Chree HMS "Ben-my-Chree" (Manx: "Woman of My Heart") was a packet steamer and a Royal Navy (RN) seaplane carrier of the First World War. She was originally built in 1907 by Vickers for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and was intended for use on the England–Isle of Man route. She was the third vessel to bear her name. To this day "Ben-my-Chree" holds the crossing speed record from Liverpool to Douglas for a steamship at under three hours.
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RMS Empress of Russia The RMS "Empress of Russia" was an ocean liner built in 1912-1913 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific steamships (CP). This ship regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East.
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SS Tauric SS "Tauric" was an ocean liner built in 1891 by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line and completed on 16 May 1891. Though designed as a livestock carrier, "Tauric" carried a small amount of cabin-(second-) and steerage-(third-) class passengers. Her maiden voyage began at Liverpool and ended at New York. After this, "Tauric" began running the Liverpool to Portland route. In 1903, the White Star Line had the ship chartered to the Dominion Line, now taking on the name "Welshman". The Dominion Line in turn transferred her to the Leyland Line in 1921. She was scrapped eight years later, in 1929.
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SS Koning der Nederlanden SS "Koning der Nederlanden" was a Dutch liner of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland. She served from 1872 until her sinking in 1881 in the Indian Ocean while en route from Batavia to Amsterdam. Three of her lifeboats, with a total of 90 passengers and crew, were never found.
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MS Oslofjord (1949) MS "Oslofjord" was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1949 by Netherlands Shipbuilding Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands for Norwegian America Line. As built she was 16,844 gross register tons, and could carry 620 passengers.
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SS Suevic SS "Suevic" was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. "Suevic" was the fifth and last of the "Jubilee Class" ocean liners, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route. In 1907 she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name "Skytteren", she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany.
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Swedish American Line Swedish American Line (Swedish: "Svenska Amerika Linien" , abbreviated SAL) is a Swedish passenger shipping line. It was founded in December 1914 under the name Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige-Nordamerika, beginning ocean liner service from Gothenburg to New York in 1915. In 1925 the company changed its name to Svenska Amerika Linien / Swedish American Line.
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Caledonia (1829 ship) Caledonia was a merchant ship built in 1829. She made two voyages transporting convicts from Madras and the Swan River Colony to Sydney, Australia.
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SS Schiller SS "Schiller" was a 3,421 ton German ocean liner, one of the largest vessels of her time. Launched in 1873, she her trade across the Atlantic Ocean, carrying passengers between New York and Hamburg for the German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line. She became notorious on 7 May 1875, while operating on her normal route, when she hit the Retarrier Ledges in the Isles of Scilly, causing her to sink with the loss of most of her crew and passengers, totalling 335 fatalities.
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RMS Britannia RMS "Britannia" was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on 5 February 1840, at the yard of Robert Duncan & Company in Greenock, Scotland. The ship and her sisters, "Acadia", "Caledonia", and "Columbia", were the first ocean liners built by the company.
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HSwMS Eugenie HSwMS "Eugenie" was a Swedish frigate, armed with 40 cannons. Between the years of 1851 and 1853, the "Eugenie" was captained by as the first Swedish warship to circumnavigate the globe, on a voyage intended to promote Swedish trade. Naval officer subsequently released an itinerary of the journey.
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SS Yorktown (1894) S.S. "Yorktown was launched 10 February 1894 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania for the Old Dominion Steamship Company for the company's overnight New York City/Norfolk, Virginia service. The United States Navy purchased "Yorktown" on 21 April 1898 to be commissioned as the second USS "Resolute, an auxiliary cruiser and transport that saw naval service during the Spanish–American War 1898–1899. The United States Department of War acquired the ship on 22 January 1900 for service as the United States Army Transport (USAT) Rawlings. The ship was sold to the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company of Baltimore, Maryland on 27 July 1901 and renamed Powhatan. "Powhatan" was wrecked in 1916 and in 1919 rebuilt as the world's first turbo-electric propelled passenger ship Cuba for luxury passenger and express freight service between Florida and Cuba with the Miami Steamship Company beginning service in 1920. Renamed Seneca the ship burned and sank 30 December 1927 at Hoboken, New Jersey then refloated 2 September 1928 and scrapped.
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General Steam Navigation Company The General Steam Navigation Company (GSNC), incorporated in 1824, was London's foremost short sea shipping line for almost 150 years, and the oldest shipping company in the world to begin business with steamships.