As the SS Verdi went down under the waves on August 22, 1917, having sailed for just ten years, this brought about the end of this popular but a very sad Lamport and Holt Line Trio of 1906-1907 built, 7,000-ton “V ships!”

Strabo was a prominent ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian, born in Amasia, a city in Pontus, around 64-63 BCE. His upbringing in a wealthy family afforded him extensive education in grammar, rhetoric, and geography, with notable tutors like …

Strabo [n 1] (/ ˈ s t r eɪ b oʊ /; Greek: Στράβων Strábōn; 64 or 63 BC – c. 24 AD) was an ancient Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

Het ss. "Strabo" (ex- "Victory", "Graaf Hendrik", "Zeno") gebouwd in 1917 bij W.F. Stoel & Zn. te Alkmaar voor Burgerhout NV. te Rotterdam, in 1919 verkocht aan de KNSM en herdoopt, afgemeerd liggend in de haven van Danzig (bakboord aanzicht). afmetingen: hoogte 9 cm breedte 14 cm startdatum: 1921

Jan 4, 2018 · Gathered here are all 8 volumes of the Loeb Classical Library translation of Strabo's Geography, with Greek and English (translation by Horace Leonard Jones) on facing pages. Public domain.

At 18.50 hours on 10 Aug, 1942, the German submarine U-155 attacked the Strabo with gunfire about 250 miles east of Georgetown and gave the crew time to abandon ship with the lifeboat. Piening (U-boat captain) questioned the crew, but wrongly thought the …

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Остання використовувала його до 1932 року під назвою SS Strabo. У 1932—1934 роках судно як SS Pauline належало компанії Atlanticos Steamship, а в 1934—1935 господарем тепер уже SS Pavlina стала African & Continental.

Strabo (Strabon in Greek), a geographer from about the time of Augustus, was a product of this tradition. His 17-book Geographica preserved a good deal of the work of earlier geographers, and for this alone we owe him a great debt.

The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth.