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ZUM4921314: Tue. 03, 1954 - Welsh Bonnet” Funnel for new liner; View of the” 'Welsh Bonnet” shaped funnel of the new Orient Liner Orsova (28,000 tons), which is designed for the dispersal of smoke ad smut. The Orsova, which has no mast, is due to leave on her maiden voyage on March 17. There is accommodation for 1,498 passengers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4921479: Tue. 04, 1954 - The Russian freighter” Ligovo” ran into trouble in the North East Sea Canal, which was blocked. Damage was already in the range of over 500,000DM. The ship was carrying valuable pelts and hides. The crew worked quickly, hoping to find as many of the pelts as they could before they washed away / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4925340: Apr. 04, 1954 - Do you still remember the sinking of the Titanic? : 42 years ago, the modernest and biggest steamer of that time, the” Titanic” crashed by drifting ice in the floods of the Atlantic ocean in 1908 April 14th. For the remembrance of this very day the television-section of the” Hessischen Rundfunk” (Broadcast Corporation in Southern Germany) transmitted the story of the ships sinking. Quite remarkable is the fact, that the stars of the play where all persons who where rescued at that day. Herr Fritz Zurn was the former second cook of the Titanic. Today he's a gent of 64 and owner of a restaurant names Titanic in Gemmrigheim near the Neckar / Bridgeman Images
JEB4925381: Romanesque art: The Chapel of St. Catherine, Voute in the cradle breeze, the Childhood of Christ, the Passion, the Last Judgment and Christ in the Majestic. Frescoes of the church of Notre Dame d'Antigny. Vienne, Poitou-Charentes (Poitou Charente), France. Scene depicting the arrest of Jesus Christ and the kiss of Judas?. Photography / Bridgeman Images