passenger steamer

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The Molsons also ran a brewery that would become the Molson Coors Beverage Company and built the first passenger steamer assembled entirely in North America.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2019

The group did manage to locate the wreck of passenger steamer Stella, which sank in 1899 claiming 105 lives, but HMS Victory remained elusive.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2019

Mendi, a passenger steamer that sank there in 1917.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 21, 2017

The U-boat’s captain, Walther Schwieger, was pleased to discover that the passenger steamer had no naval escort.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015

As the ship got closer, George could see that it was a passenger steamer, like the Titanic.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis