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RMS Empress of Asia

**RMS *Empress of Asia*** was an ocean liner built in 1912–1913 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships.

As well as being a passenger liner in peacetime, *Empress of Asia* served as an armed merchant cruiser and a troopship in wartime. She was sunk during World War II by Japanese aircraft while transiting from Bombay to Singapore.
MS Saturnia

**MV *Saturnia*** was an Italian ocean liner named after Saturnia, Tuscany, the first of two sister ships built in Trieste for Cosulich Soc. Triestina di Nav. of Trieste and launched in 1925. Sister ship MS Vulcania was launched the next year. *Saturnia* served into World War II for Italy and upon the Italian armistice with the Allies was delivered to the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) in an arrangement made between Italy and Admiral Cunningham of the Royal Navy, approved by General Eisenhower.

*Saturnia* sailed from Italy to New York with an Italian crew and was delivered to WSA on 18 November 1943. The ship first served under a WSA agent after conversion into a troop ship allocated to U.S. Army requirements but in January 1945 began conversion into a hospital ship under U.S. Army bareboat charter from WSA. After conversion into **USAHS *Frances Y. Slanger***, the ship departed New York in July 1945 for France to embark patients. In December 1945 the hospital ship was retired and converted from 24 January to 21 February 1946 into a dependent transport as **USAT *Saturnia***.

In November 1946 *Saturnia* was delivered to the Italian government to return to commercial service until March 1965. The ship was scrapped in October 1965.
MS Gripsholm (1924)

**MS *Gripsholm*** was an ocean liner, built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg-New York City run. She was of great historical importance as the first ship built for transatlantic express service as a diesel-powered motor vessel, rather than as a steamship.
SS Haverford

**SS *Haverford*** was an American transatlantic liner commissioned in 1901 for the American Line on the route from Southampton to New York, then quickly on the route from Liverpool to Boston and Philadelphia. During her early years, this ship, mainly designed to transport migrants and goods, was the victim of several incidents. Her company was integrated into the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM) in 1902 and she was used by other companies within the trust, the Dominion Line and the Red Star Line.
TSS Maasdam IV

The **TS/S *Stefan Batory*** was an ocean liner built in the Netherlands in 1952. It was operated by Holland America Lines and later Polish Ocean Lines. It remained in service until 1988 and was scrapped in 2000 in Turkey.

### History

The ocean liner was put into service, as the fourth Holland America Line (HA) liner to serve under the name of **SS *Maasdam***. It was initially used to service the Dutch East Indies by the Holland America Line. The ship was originally planned as an ordinary freighter under the name of "Diemerdyk" and plans changed during construction to become a passenger liner.
SS Princess Mary

**SS *Princess Mary*** was a passenger vessel in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) during the first half of the 20th century.

This ship was called a "pocket liner" because she offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale. The ship was part of the CPR "Princess fleet," which was composed of ships having names which began with the title "Princess". Along with the SS *Princess Adelaide* the SS *Princess Alice* and the SS *Princess Sophia*, the SS *Princess Mary* was one of four similar ships built for CPR during 1910–11.
SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm

**SS *Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm*** was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd (NDL) from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as **USS *Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm*(ID-4063)** for the United States Navy returning American troops from France.  The vessel was first chartered—and later purchased outright—by Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) and operated under the names ***Empress of China***, ***Empress of India***, ***Montlaurier***,  ***Monteith***, and ***Montnairn***.  She was scrapped in 1929.
SS Orbita

**SS *Orbita*** was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was launched on Tuesday, 7 July 1914, at 11.15 GMT. Her sister ships were SS *Orduna* and SS *Orca*.

She provided transatlantic passenger transport, measured about 15,500 gross tons, and was 550.3 ft x 67.3 ft.
SS Indiana (1873)

**SS *Indiana*** was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The third of a series of four *Pennsylvania*-class vessels, *Indiana* and her three sister ships – *Pennsylvania*, *Ohio* and *Illinois* – were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and among the first to be fitted with compound steam engines. They were also the first ships to challenge British dominance of the transatlantic trade since the American Civil War.

Though soon outclassed by newer vessels, *Indiana* was to enjoy a substantial 36-year career, a highlight of which was her transportation of United States President Ulysses S. Grant on the first leg of his celebrated 1877–78 world tour. After 24 years of transatlantic crossings, *Indiana* was sold for Pacific service, before being requisitioned as a troopship for service during the Spanish–American War. She was wrecked off Isla Santa Margarita, Mexico, in 1909.
RMS Empress of Canada (1960)

**RMS *Empress of Canada*** was an ocean liner launched in 1960 and completed the following year by Vickers-Armstrongs of Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd.. This ship, the third CP vessel to be named *Empress of Canada*, regularly traversed the transatlantic route between Liverpool and Canada for the next decade. Although Canadian Pacific Railways was incorporated in Canada, the Atlantic (and pre-war Pacific) liners were owned and operated by the British registered subsidiary Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. and were always British flagged and manned and therefore *Empress of Canada* was not the flagship of the Canadian Merchant Marine.
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm

**SS *Kronprinz Wilhelm*** was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS *Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse*.

She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914–1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the U.S. entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.
SS Kościuszko

***Kościuszko*** was a passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1915, sailed as a troopship in both World Wars, was an ocean liner between the wars, carried displaced persons after World War II and was scrapped in England in 1950.

In her 35-year history the ship was registered in the merchant navies of the United Kingdom, Latvia and Poland. She was built as ***Czaritza*** and later bore the names ***Lituania***, ***Kościuszko***, ***Gdynia*** and ***Empire Helford***. The name *Kościuszko* refers to Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746 – 1817), a military leader, statesman and Polish national hero.
MV Monte Rosa

**HMT *Empire Windrush***, originally **MV *Monte Rosa***, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. She was owned and operated by the German shipping line Hamburg Süd in the 1930s under the name *Monte Rosa*. During World War II she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the *Empire Windrush*. In British service, she continued to be used as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Transport" and MV for "Motor Vessel".

In 1948, *Empire Windrush* brought one of the first large groups of postwar West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London. 802 of these passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean: of these, 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom. British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II, including those who came on later ships, are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation.
SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

***Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse*** (Ger. orth. *Kaiser Wilhelm der Große*) was a German transatlantic ocean liner named after Wilhelm I, German Emperor, the first monarch of the German Empire.

The liner was constructed in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) for the North German Lloyd (NDL), and entered service in 1897. It was the first liner to have four funnels and is considered to be the first "superliner." The first of four sister ships built between 1903 and 1907 by NDL (the others being SS *Kronprinz Wilhelm*, SS *Kaiser Wilhelm II* and SS *Kronprinzessin Cecilie*), she marked the beginning of a change in the way maritime supremacy was demonstrated in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.
SS Merion

**SS *Merion*** was an ocean liner built in 1902 for the American Line, a subsidiary line of the International Mercantile Marine (IMM). She also sailed for the Red Star Line and the Dominion Line—both subsidiary lines of IMM—during her passenger career. After the outbreak of World War I she was bought by the British Admiralty and converted to serve as a decoy resembling the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS *Tiger*. In May 1915, while posing as *Tiger* in the Aegean Sea, *Merion* was sunk by the German submarine SM *UB-8*.
SS New England

The **SS *Scandinavian*** was a steamship built at Harland & Wolff in Belfast which entered service as an ocean liner in 1898. The ship changed names and owners several times; she was originally built for the Dominion Line and was known as ***New England***, in 1903 she was transferred to the White Star Line and renamed ***Romanic***. In 1912 she was sold to the Allan Line and renamed *Scandinavian*, the name which she retained for the rest of her career.
RMS Empress of Britain (1930)

**RMS *Empress of Britain*** was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland and owned by Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She was the second of three Canadian Pacific ships named *Empress of Britain*, which provided scheduled trans-Atlantic passenger service from spring to autumn between Canada and Europe from 1931 until 1939.

In her time *Empress of Britain* was the largest, fastest and most luxurious ship between the United Kingdom and Canada, and the largest ship in the Canadian Pacific fleet. She was torpedoed on 28 October 1940 by *U-32* and sank. At 42,348 GRT she was the largest liner lost in the Second World War and the largest ship sunk by a U-boat.
SS Medic

**SS *Medic*** was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1899. *Medic* was one of five *Jubilee Class* ocean liners (the others being the *Afric*, *Persic*, *Runic* and *Suevic*) built specifically to service the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. The ship's name pertained to the ancient Persian region of Media and was pronounced *Meedick*.

*Medic* was the second *Jubilee Class* ship to be built for the Australia service. Like her sisters she was a single funnel liner, measuring just under 12,000 gross tons, which had capacity for 320 passengers in third-class on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat.

After a long career with White Star, *Medic* was sold in 1928 and was converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed *Hektoria*, she remained in service in this role until being torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic whilst sailing in a convoy in 1942.
SS Monarch of Bermuda

**SS *New Australia*** was a UK-built turbo-electric passenger steamship that had a varied career from 1931 to 1966. She was built as the ocean liner ***Monarch of Bermuda***, was a troop ship in the Second World War and was damaged by fire in 1947.

She was then refitted to carry emigrants to Australia and renamed *New Australia*. In 1958 she was refitted again, renamed ***Arkadia*** and served as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship.
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

***Queen Elizabeth 2***, often referred to simply as ***QE2***, is a retired British ocean liner converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, *Queen Elizabeth 2* was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was then laid up until converted and since 18 April 2018 has been operating as a floating hotel in Dubai.
MS Christiaan Huygens

***Christiaan Huygens*** was a Dutch ocean liner that was built in 1927 by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (SMN). She was employed on the Amsterdam – Batavia route until the outbreak of the Second World War. Requisitioned as a troopship, she was employed in the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Surviving the end of the war in Europe, she struck a mine in the Scheldt on 26 August 1945 and was beached. She broke in two on 5 September and was declared a total loss.
SS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

**TSMS *Lakonia*** was a passenger ship, launched in 1929 for Netherland Line as the ocean liner ***Johan van Oldenbarnevelt***. In 1962 she became the Greek Line cruise ship TSMS *Lakonia*. On 22 December 1963 she caught fire at sea and on 29 December she sank. 128 people were killed in the disaster.
RMS Adriatic

**RMS *Adriatic*** was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line. She was the fourth of a quartet of ships of more than 20,000 GRT, dubbed The Big Four. The ship was the only one of the four which was never the world's largest ship. However, she was the largest, the fastest, and the most luxurious of the Big Four, being the first ocean liner to have an indoor swimming pool and a Turkish bath.

She began her career on the brand new route from Southampton to New York before joining, from 1911, her sister ship on the secondary route from Liverpool. They were in fact slow liners intended to provide a service at moderate prices. When World War I broke out, the *Adriatic* was among the ships that continued their civilian transatlantic service, while carrying many provisions. In 1917, she was requisitioned and served as a troop transport.

After the war, she was refitted several times, and was gradually used for cruises, which became her main services in the 1930s. When Cunard Line and White Star Line merged in 1934, she was quickly deemed unnecessary and sold at the end of the year. She was scrapped in Osaka in 1935.
SS Dronning Maud (1925)

**SS *Dronning Maud*** was a 1,489 ton steel-hulled steamship built in 1925 by the Norwegian shipyard Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted in Fredrikstad. *Dronning Maud* was ordered by the Trondheim-based company Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskipsselskap for the passenger and freight service Hurtigruten along the coast of Norway. She served this route as the company flagship until she was sunk under controversial circumstances during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign.
SS Europa

**SS *Europa***, later **SS *Liberté***, IMO 5607332, was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. She and her sister ship, *Bremen*, were the two most advanced, high-speed steam turbine ocean vessels in their day, with both earning the Blue Riband.

After World War II French line *Compagnie Générale Transatlantique* was awarded the *Europa* as a war prize to replace the destroyed *SS*Normandie'**, which had caught fire and capsized at her moorings while interned by the United States in New York City. *Europa* was refitted at Le Havre and rechristened the***Liberté***, serving until the arrival of the SS *France* in 1961 as the premier liner in the *Compagnie's* fleet. She was laid up in 1962 and scrapped at La Spezia, Italy, in 1963.**
SS Barbarossa

**USS *Mercury* (ID-3012)** was a United States Navy transport ship during World War I. She was formerly the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner SS *Barbarossa* built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany, in 1897, and operated by the North German Lloyd Line.

At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States and, when that country entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport. After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the Army Transport Service and then to the U.S. Shipping Board. She was sold for scrapping in February 1924.
SS Jan Pieterszoon Coen

**SS *Jan Pieterszoon Coen*** was a Dutch passenger ship named after a former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies that was scuttled as a blockship during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 in the port of IJmuiden, North Holland to prevent the German Navy from entering the port.
RMS Ascania (1923)

The **RMS *Ascania*** was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. She was launched on 20 December 1923 at the Armstrong Whitworth Shipbuilders Ltd yard in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the fifth of Cunard's six "A" class liners. Due to unforeseen cost overruns, the vessel was not completed until May 1925. Following service in a number of military roles during the Second World War, she was refitted and returned to civilian use in 1950, finally retiring in 1956.
SS Veendam

***SS Veendam*** was a 15,450 GRT ton ocean liner built for the Holland America Line. Built in 1922 by Harland & Wolff Limited, in Govan, Glasgow, she would operate on transatlantic routes between New York and Rotterdam via the Caribbean Sea. In 1941 she was seized by the Kriegsmarine as an accommodation ship and in 1945 after heavy damage, she was returned to her former owners the Holland America Line. She would go on to serve for another eight years before she was scrapped in 1953 at Baltimore, Maryland. She was the sister ship of SS *Volendam*.
SS Conte di Savoia

**SS *Conte di Savoia*** ("Count of Savoy") was an Italian ocean liner built in 1932 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste.

*Conte di Savoia* was originally ordered for the Lloyd Sabaudo line; however, after a merger with the Navigazione Generale Italiana, the ship was completed for the newly formed Italia Flotte Riunite. The new Italia Line also controlled *Rex*, a similar though slightly larger ship completed just two months before *Conte di Savoia*. The *Conte di Savoia* was more modern in decoration and appearance than *Rex* and was the first major liner fitted with gyroscopic stabilisers.
RMS Aurania (1924)

**HMS *Artifex*** was a repair ship of the Royal Navy from late in the Second World War and into the Cold War. Launched as the Cunard liner **RMS *Aurania*** she was requisitioned on the outbreak of war to serve as an armed merchant cruiser. Damaged by a U-boat while sailing with an Atlantic convoy, she was purchased outright and converted to a floating workshop, spending the rest of her life as a support ship for the navy.
Viscount Vantone Morellus

Lord Vantone Morellus is a Stormwind nobleman who rules over the Barony of Cassellus. A businessman at his cor

## Physical description

### Eye color

Left Eye Blue, Right Eye Green.

e, Lord Morellus sought to further serve the Kingdom by investing within its people's needs and requirements through profitable success.

Having building industry within the areas of The King's land to spur growth, he has invested both his wealth and influence to support those in need, and those seeking better lives.
RMS Virginian

**SS *Drottningholm*** was one of the earliest steam turbine ocean liners. She was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line, built in Scotland, and launched in 1904 as **RMS *Virginian***. Her sister ship, RMS *Victorian*, was built in Ireland, launched four months earlier, and was the World's first turbine-powered liner.
Princess Norah (steamship)

***Princess Norah*** was a steamship which operated in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska from 1929 to 1964. From 1955 to 1958, this ship was called ***Queen of the North***. From 1958 to 1964, the ship was called ***Canadian Prince.*** This ship should not be confused with the later similarly named motor ferry MV *Queen of the North*.
RMS Olympic

**RMS *Olympic*** was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of *Olympic*-class liners. Unlike the other ships in the class, *Olympic* had a long career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname, *Old Reliable*. She returned to civilian service after the war, and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable.

*Olympic* was withdrawn from service and sold for scrap in 1935; demolition was completed in 1937.
SS Northern Pacific

**SS *Northern Pacific*** was built as a passenger ship at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company. *Northern Pacific*, along with sister ship *Great Northern*, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the Great Northern Railway Lines and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915. The ship was acquired on 17 September 1917 for use as a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I, commissioned **USS *Northern Pacific*** and later, after transfer to the United States Army, as the Army transport **USAT *Northern Pacific***. She was destroyed by fire in 1922.
SS Leonardo da Vinci

**SS *Leonardo da Vinci*** was an ocean liner built in 1960 by Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy for the Italian Line as a replacement for their SS *Andrea Doria* that had been lost in 1956. She was initially used in transatlantic service alongside SS *Cristoforo Colombo*, and primarily for cruising after the delivery of the new SS *Michelangelo* and SS *Raffaello* in 1965. In 1976 the *Leonardo da Vinci* became the last Italian Line passenger liner to be used in service across the North Atlantic. Between 1977 and 1978 she was used as a cruise ship by Italia Crociere, but was laid up from 1978 onwards until 1982 when she was scrapped.

Named after the famous Italian inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci, the ship featured numerous technological innovations, including provisions for conversion to run on nuclear power.
SS Cambodge

**SS *Stella Solaris*** (lit. "Star of the Sun", formerly *SS **Cambodge***) was an ocean liner built for Messageries Maritimes in 1952. She mainly provided passenger service between France, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan.

*Stella Solaris* was built in Dunkirk in northern France as *Cambodge*, and along with two sister ships, she made her first voyage in 1953. After the 1970s, she was bought by a Greek company and converted into a cruise ship. Most of her working life was spent as a cruise ship in the Aegean Sea and she also made frequent transatlantic voyages to South America and the Caribbean Sea. Few major damaging incidents happened to *Stella Solaris*, and she quickly became one of the more popular cruise vessels of the time. An economic crisis in the cruise ship trade in 2003–2004 caused many older vessels, such as *Stella Solaris*, to be sold for scrap. After 54 years of service, she was retired in December 2003 and broken up in Alang, Bhavnagar District, India.
SS La Provence

**SS *La Provence*** was an ocean liner and auxiliary cruiser torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on 26 February 1916. She belonged to the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

When launched on 21 March 1905 in a ceremony attended by the Ministers of Public Works and Commerce along with the First Secretary of Marine, *La Provence* was the largest ship in the French merchant marine and the largest built in France.
SS Main (1900)

**SS *Main*** was an ocean liner of the *Rhein* class of North German Lloyd. She was in service on the route from Bremen to Baltimore from her 1900 launch until seized by the Allies of World War I in 1914, and was involved in the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire. Unlike her sister ships *Neckar* and *Rhein*, she never entered service for the United States Navy.
SS Illinois (1873)

**SS *Illinois*** was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The last of a series of four *Pennsylvania*-class vessels, *Illinois* and her three sister ships—*Pennsylvania*, *Ohio* and *Indiana*—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines. They were also the first ships to challenge British dominance of the transatlantic trade since the American Civil War.

Though soon outclassed by newer and larger vessels, *Illinois* was destined to enjoy a long and distinguished career, first as a transatlantic passenger liner and later as the U.S. Navy's auxiliary vessel USS *Supply*. In the 1870s, *Illinois* may have been the first ship to successfully transport a shipment of fresh meat from the United States to Europe, twenty years before the introduction of refrigeration. As USS *Supply*, the ship served in both the Spanish–American War and the First World War, and crew members may have been the first United States personnel to fire a hostile shot in the latter. *Illinois* was scrapped in 1928.
RMS Victorian

**RMS *Victorian*** was the World's first turbine-powered ocean liner. She was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line and launched in 1904.

*Victorian* was built in Ireland. She had a sister ship, *Virginian*, which was built in Scotland and launched four months later.

Throughout the First World War *Victorian* was an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). In 1918 she also carried cargo and troops.

In 1920 she returned to civilian service with the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, but in 1921 the British Government chartered her as a troop ship. In 1922 Canadian Pacific renamed her ***Marloch***. She was scrapped in 1929 after a quarter of a century of successful service.
House Kallifur

**House Kallifur** is a newly-founded noble house of Stormwind that currently rules over the Barony of Mistwood. Little is known about this noble house aside from the fact that its patriarch, Lord Alonso Kallifur, is a reclusive and enigmatic sorcerer who is rumored to wield a great deal of dark, ethereal power.

### Known Members:

* Alonso Kallifur
* Korviras Ithaer
MS Sobieski

**MS *Sobieski*** was a Polish passenger ship launched in 1939. It was constructed for the South American service of the Gdynia-America Line – GAL to replace the aging SS *Kościuszko* and SS *Pulaski*. She was named in honour of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski. The *MS Sobieski* was to be a sister ship to the MS *Chrobry*.
SS Admiral Nakhimov

**SS *Admiral Nakhimov*** (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named **SS *Berlin***, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship. On 31 August 1986, *Admiral Nakhimov* collided with the large bulk carrier *Pyotr Vasev* in the Tsemes Bay, near the port of Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, and quickly sank. In total, 423 of the 1,234 people on board died.
SS Rex

**SS *Rex*** was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as **SS *Guglielmo Marconi***, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created *Italia Flotta Riunite* (Italian Line).

*Rex* operated transatlantic crossings from Italy with its running mate, *Conte di Savoia* prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. *Rex* maintained a commercial service in the Mediterranean Sea for a short period, but when Italy entered the war in June 1940 *Rex* was laid up for safe-keeping. On 8 September 1944, off Koper, *Rex* was hit by cannon fire and 123 rockets launched by Royal Air Force aircraft, caught fire from bow to stern. She rolled onto the port side, burned for four days, and sank in shallow water. The ship was broken up at the site beginning in 1950.
SS Zealandic

**SS *Zealandic*** was a British ocean liner initially operated by White Star Line. She was used both as a passenger liner and a cargo ship as well as serving during both world wars.

As "Fleet tender C" she was used as a decoy for the British aircraft carrier HMS *Hermes*. She was sunk en route to the dock where she was to be converted back to cargo use.
SS Tenyo Maru

**SS *Tenyo Maru*** (天洋丸, *Tenyōmaru*) of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steamship Co. (TKK) was a Japanese ocean-going passenger liner completed in 1908 by the Mitsubishi Dockyard & Engine Works, Nagasaki, Japan. It had a sister ship SS *Chiyo Maru*. It had accommodation for 275 first-class, 54 second-class and 800 steerage passengers, and could carry over 8000 tons of cargo. The steerage class had an opium den for Chinese passengers. The ship had the following dimensions: length overall 575 ft., between perpendiculars 558 ft., breadth 63 ft., depth to shelter deck 46 ft. 6 in., to upper deck 38 ft. 6 in., gross tonnage 14,700 tons; displacement 21,500 tons at 31 ft. 8 in. draught.

The ship's turbines were built by the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Wallsend, England, in 1907, and were capable of delivering a total 17,000 hp at 270 revolutions per minute. It had three 12-inch hollow-steel shafts, each carrying one propeller, with pitch of 105 inches, diameter of 115 inches. Steam was supplied by 13 cylindrical boilers, working at 180 lb pressure and fired by oil fuel only. The ships attained 21.6 knots on trial and 20 knots on ocean service.
SS Vasari (1908)

***Vasari*** was a 1908 steam ocean liner that was built in England, operated by the British Lamport and Holt Line and used on its service between New York and the River Plate.

In 1928 she was sold to a Hull deep-sea fishing undertaking who had her rebuilt as the fish factory ship ***Arctic Queen***. In 1935 she was sold to the USSR, who renamed her ***Pishchevaya Industriya***. She survived until 1979, when she was scrapped in Taiwan.
SS Conte Biancamano

***Conte Biancamano*** was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1925. The name was chosen in honor of Humbert I Biancamano, founder of the Savoy dynasty. She was built in the Scottish shipyard William Beardmore & Co. in Dalmuir, near Glasgow. She was built for the Genovese shipping company Lloyd Sabaudo, operator of the *Conte Rosso* and *Conte Verde*. The engine, equipped with two steam turbines double reduction unit and two propellers, allowed her to reach a speed of 20 knots, and vented in two funnels. She housed 180 passengers in first class, 220 in second class, 390 in economic class and 2,660 in third class.

*Conte Biancamano* was the first of two sister ships, her sister *Conte Grande* not seeing completion until 1927.
SS Yongala

**SS *Yongala*** was a passenger and cargo ship that sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville.

All 122 aboard died, and traces of the ship were not found until days later, when cargo and wreckage began to wash ashore at Cape Bowling Green and at Cleveland Bay. It was believed that the hull of the ship had been ripped open by a submerged rock. The wreck, which has become a tourist attraction and dive site, was not found until 1958.
MS Stockholm

**MV *Astoria*** is a ship that was constructed as the transatlantic liner **MS *Stockholm*** for Swedish American Line, and rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1993. Ordered in 1944, and commenced service in 1948, at 73 years old, she was the oldest passenger liner still sailing in deep water routes. As *Stockholm*, she was best known for an accidental collision with *Andrea Doria* in July 1956, resulting in the sinking of the latter ship and 46 fatalities off the coast of Nantucket.
Vyrenus Sarvein

**Nation**
 **Born**
 **Titles**
 **House**
 **Relatives**
* Napolina Sarvein (Grandmother)
* Tywell Sarvein (Uncle)
* Dracos Sarvein (Father)
* Aellyn Sarvein (Mother)
* Darvesk Sarvein (Brother)
* Dacre Sarvein (Brother)
* Darwyn Sarvein (Sister)
* Aarvos Sarvein (Brother)
* Aellwyn Sarvein (Sister)
 **Coat of Arms**

**Vyrenus Sarvein** is a second son of the late Dracos Sarvein and Aellyn Moonrunner. The former, a knighted veteran of the First War, and the latter the youngest daughter of a Thalassian senator. Growing up, Vyrenus was noticeably behind in his studies compared to his siblings, many of his tutors and the wisemen of his father's court suggesting that Vyrenus may have a condition in which his mind would inverse and distort the letters on the page, making reading exceedingly difficult for the boy. However, he had a natural gift with a blade and showed great aptitude as a master-of-arms. Despite lacking book learning, Vyrenus had a natural likeability and charisma about him that made him a natural-born leader, aiming to become a military commander.
SS Afric

**SS *Afric*** was a steamship built for White Star Line by Harland and Wolff shipyards. She was of the Jubilee class, had a reported gross register tonnage of 11,948, and had a port of registry of Liverpool, England. *Afric* was launched on November 16, 1898, and was involved in shipping between Liverpool and Australia.

*Afric* was the first of five Jubillee-class ships built by White Star Line for their new service to Australia, the others were *Medic*, *Persic*, *Runic* and *Suevic*. *Afric* was a single-funnel liner with capacity for 320 third class passengers on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat.
SS Transylvania (1914)

**SS *Transylvania*** was a passenger liner of the Anchor Line, a subsidiary of the Cunard Line and a sister ship to SS *Tuscania*. She was torpedoed and sunk on 4 May 1917 by the German U-boat SM *U-63* at 44°15′N 8°30′ECoordinates: 44°15′N 8°30′E while carrying Allied troops to Egypt and sank with a loss of 412 lives.
MS Oranje

**MS *Oranje***, later known as ***Angelina Lauro***, was a Dutch passenger liner, a wartime hospital ship and finally a cruise ship that was burnt out and subsequently lost while being towed for scrap. She sank in a storm in the mid-Pacific, on 24 September 1979. The ship underwent 25 years' service as *Oranje*, and fifteen as *Angelina Lauro*. She was a cruise ship for the last seven years of her career. Extensive film of a cruise she made in 1954 exists in the London Cinema Museum archive.
Fuso Maru

**SS *Fuso Maru*** was a Japanese ocean liner that was torpedoed by the United States Navy submarine USS *Steelhead* (SS-280) in the South China Sea 280 nautical miles (520 km) northwest of Cape Mayraira, Luzon, the Philippines, at (18°51′N 122°55′E), while she was travelling in Convoy MI-11 from Moji, Japan, to Miri, Borneo.
RMS Duchess of Atholl

**RMS *Duchess of Atholl*** 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 she was converted into a troop ship. In 1942 a U-boat sank her in the South Atlantic, killing four of *Duchess of Atholl*'s crew, whilst 821 survivors were rescued.
SS Waratah

**SS *Waratah*** was a passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 for the Blue Anchor Line to operate between Europe and Australia. In July 1909, on only her second voyage, the ship, en route along the coast of the Colony of Natal (part of modern day South Africa) from Durban to Cape Town, disappeared with 211 passengers and crew aboard. No trace of the ship has ever been found.
SS Minnesota

**SS *Minnesota*** was an American built ocean-liner operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company which was owned by James J. Hill. From 27 February 1919 until 15 September 1919 the ship was commissioned as **USS *Troy*** for U.S. naval service. She was an identical sister ship to the SS *Dakota* which sank in Japan in 1907. Both ships built in 1903 were the largest and most luxurious liners built in the United States at the opening of the 20th century. The passenger telephone system, another was installed for ship's use, was advertised by the manufacturer, Electric Gas Lighting Company of Boston, to be the largest shipboard installation.
SS Pennsylvania (1896)

**SS *Pennsylvania*** was a was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Ireland in 1896 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the first of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that were built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.

In 1917 the US Government seized *Pennsylvania* and renamed her ***Nansemond***. She was a troop ship with the Army Transport Service until the end of the First World War. In 1919 the US Navy operated her as the troop ship **USS *Nansemond* (ID-1395)**.

In August 1919 the Navy returned *Nansemond* to the United States Shipping Board, who had her converted to a cargo-only ship. She was scrapped in 1924.
RMS Aragon

**HMT *Aragon***, originally **RMS *Aragon***, was a 9,588 GRT transatlantic Royal Mail Ship that served as a troop ship in the First World War. She was built in Belfast, Ireland in 1905 and was the first of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet of "A-liners" that worked regular routes between Southampton and South American ports including Buenos Aires.

In 1913 *Aragon* became Britain's first defensively armed merchant ship ("DAMS") of modern times. In the First World War she served as a troop ship, taking part in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. In 1917 a German submarine sank her in the Mediterranean, killing 610 of the personnel aboard.
SS Malolo

**SS *Malolo*** (later known as *Matsonia*, *Atlantic*, and *Queen Frederica*) was an American built passenger liner and cruise ship built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia in 1926 for the Matson Line. She was the first of a number of ships designed by William Francis Gibbs for the line, which did much to develop tourism in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1927 Matson commissioned its largest ship yet, the *Malolo* (flying fish) for the first-class luxury service between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. The *Malolo* and other Matson liners advertised superb public rooms, spacious cabins, swimming pools, a gymnasium, and a staff, including a hairdresser, to provide a high standard of service.
SS Cap Finisterre

The steam ship ***Cap Finisterre*** was a German transatlantic ocean liner of the early 20th century, which was transferred to Japan in 1920 as German war reparations, and renamed ***Taiyō Maru*** (大洋丸) on trans-Pacific routes. She was sunk on army service by an American submarine in 1942, during World War II, with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
RMS Celtic (1901)

**RMS *Celtic*** was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than SS *Great Eastern* by gross register tonnage (it was also 9 ft [2.7 m] longer), *Celtic* was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, the dubbed The Big Four. She was the last ship ordered by Thomas Henry Ismay before his death in 1899. The second liner of her name (the first was completed in 1872) she was put into service in 1901. Her large size (she could carry nearly 3,000 passengers) and her low but economical speed (16 kn or 30 km/h, while her contemporary liners then sailed on average at 19–20 kn or 35–37 km/h) inaugurated a new company policy aiming to favor size, luxury and comfort, to the detriment of speed.
SS Zeeland (1900)

**SS *Zeeland*** was a British and Belgian ocean liner of the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM). She was a sister ship to *Vaderland* and a near sister ship to *Kroonland* and *Finland* of the same company. Although her name was Dutch, it was changed during World War I to the less German-sounding **SS *Northland***. She served for a time as a British troop ship under the name **HMT *Northland***. Reverting to *Zeeland* after the war, the ship was renamed **SS *Minnesota*** late in her career. *Zeeland* sailed primarily for IMM's Red Star Line for most of her early career, but also sailed under charter for the White Star Line (later White Star-Dominion), the International Navigation Company, the American Line, and the Atlantic Transport Line, all IMM subsidiary lines. The pursers safe survived the scrapyard at Inverkeithing and after residing in a wardrobe for 80 years is currently on display in a local private home.
SS Santa Paula (1932)

**SS *Santa Paula*** (later **SS *Acropolis***) was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built for the Grace Line. She was the second of four sister ships (the others being *Santa Elena*, *Santa Lucia* and *Santa Rosa*) ordered in 1930 from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, NJ. Her regular service route included inter-coastal service between the east coast and the west coast of the USA via the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. She later sailed on cruises from New York to the Caribbean and South America. She was the second of three vessels to bear the name *Santa Paula* for Grace Line service. (The first Grace Line *Santa Paula* was a 1916-built ship that was sold in 1925 and sunk in 1943.
SS Normandie

The **SS *Normandie*** was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line *Compagnie Générale Transatlantique* (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.

*Normandie*'s novel design and lavish interiors led many to consider her the greatest of ocean liners. Despite this, she was not a commercial success and relied partly on government subsidy to operate. During service as the flagship of the CGT, she made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings from her home port of Le Havre to New York City. *Normandie* held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing at several points during her service career, during which the RMS *Queen Mary* was her main rival.

During the Second World War, *Normandie* was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS *Lafayette*. In 1942, the liner caught fire while being converted to a troopship, capsized onto her port side and came to rest on the mud of the Hudson River at Pier 88, the site of the current New York Passenger Ship Terminal. Although salvaged at great expense, restoration was deemed too costly and she was scrapped in October 1946.
SS La Bourgogne

**SS *La Bourgogne*** was a French ocean liner, which sank in a collision July 1898, with the loss of 549 lives. At the time this sinking was infamous, because only 13% of the passengers survived, while 48% of the crew did. In 1886 she set a new record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by a postal steamer.
RMS Empress of Ireland

**RMS *Empress of Ireland*** was an ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier *Storstad* in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the *Titanic* disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough lifeboats for all onboard, she foundered in only fourteen minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, making it the worst peacetime marine disaster in Canadian history.
SS Alsatian

**RMS *Empress of France***, formerly **SS *Alsatian*** was an ocean liner built in 1913-1914 by William Beardmore and Company at Glasgow in Scotland for Allan Line.

In total, the ship's service history encompasses 99 trans-Atlantic voyages, 5 trans-Pacific voyages, and 8 other cruises in addition to her war service.
SS France (1960)

**SS *France*** was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962. At the time of her construction in 1960, the 316 m (1,037 ft) vessel was the longest passenger ship ever built, a record that remained unchallenged until the construction of the 345 m (1,132 ft) RMS *Queen Mary 2* in 2004.

*France* was later purchased by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) in 1979, renamed **SS *Norway*** and underwent significant modifications to refit her for cruising duties. She was renamed **SS *Blue Lady*** and sold to be scrapped in 2005, and scrapping was completed in late 2008.
SS Deutschland (1900)

**SS *Deutschland*** was a passenger liner built in Stettin and launched in 1900 by the Hamburg America Line of Germany. The rival North German Lloyd line had launched Germany's first four funnel liner, *Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse* in 1897, and SS *Deutschland* was built by Hamburg America as Germany's second four-funnel liner in order to compete.

Although *SS Deutschland* was able to capture the Blue Riband from *Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse*, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in just over five days, she suffered from persistent engine issues, and was withdrawn from transatlantic service in 1910 after just ten years. At this time she was renamed ***Viktoria Luise*** and converted to a dedicated cruise ship. As *Viktoria Luise* she saw brief service in World War I. Because of the bad condition of the ship after the World War, it was not seized by the Allies and was for a time the only remaining large steam ship sailing under a German flag. In 1921 she was converted again into an immigrant ship and renamed ***Hansa***, although changes in United States immigration laws reduced the value of this trade, and ultimately she was sold for scrap in 1925.
Asama Maru

***Asama Maru*** (浅間丸, *Asama maru*) was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was built in 1927–1929 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan. The vessel was named after an important Shinto shrine.

*Asama Maru* set a record of her maiden voyage to California, and surpassed this record on her fourth voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco.
SS Paris

**SS *Paris*** was a French ocean liner built for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. Although *Paris* was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When *Paris* was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons. Although not so large as the Olympic or Imperator ships and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania, the Paris, operated by the Cie Generale Transatlantique, was one of the finest liners put into service, at the time.  She is 768 feet long, 86 feet beam and 60 feet deep. On 31 feet draught, she displaces 36,700 metric tons
SS Blücher

**SS *Blücher*** was a *Barbarossa*-class ocean liner built by Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg, Germany, in 1902 for the Hamburg America Line, to sail under German flag. She measured 12,334 gross register tons and was 550 (bp) feet long by 62 feet wide. Steam quadruple-expansion engines powered twin screws. Her service speed was 16 knots. She originally carried 2,102 passengers, including 333 first class, 169 second class, and 1,600 third class, on four decks with a steel hull, and was served by a crew of 252. She was fitted with two masts and two funnels. She saw Hamburg-New York and Hamburg-South America service.