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  For Those in Peril on the Sea - LostLiners.com
SS Noronic was first launched in 1913 at Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, weighing in at a Gross Tonnage of 6, 095 tons.
Sometime around 2:30AM passenger, named Church was travelling aboard the Noronic with his family, was walking from the stern of the ship, where the lounge is located and noticed what he described as a haze in the aft pat of the starboard corridor on C Deck.
The final conclusion was that the loss of the SS Noronic and loss of life was due to wrongful default of the owners and the master of the ship.
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  Noronic - Canadawiki Canadian History Timeline Biography Library Quotes Aboriginal Society Culture Quiz Canada ...
The SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in 1949, with serious loss of life.
The SS Noronic was launched in 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
The Noronic docked for the night at Pier 9 in Toronto Harbour on the evening of Friday, September 16.
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  SS Noronic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in 1949, with serious loss of life.
The SS Noronic was launched in 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
The captain on the voyage was Capt. William Taylor.
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 Ss_noronic info here at en.120t.info   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was spoliated by tinder in Toronto Harbour in 1949, with staid loss of life.
The SS Noronic was bombarded in 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
The Noronic docked for the dim at Pier 9 in Toronto Harbour on the close of Friday, September 16.
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 Ss Noronic
The SS ''Noronic'' was a passenger ship launched in 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
The ''Noronic'' docked for the night at Pier 9 in Toronto Harbour on the evening of Friday, September 16.
After an hour of fighting the blaze, the ''Noronic'' was so full of water from fire hoses that it listed severely toward the pier, causing firefighters to retreat.
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 The Times - Burning of the Noronic
In an era when “sailing the inland seas” was considered ‘de rigueur’, the SS Noronic, flagship of the Canada Steamship Lines and the largest passenger cruise ship on the Great Lakes, sailed more than a thousand safe voyages in her 37-year career.
The Noronic was known on both shores as “The Queen of the Inland Seas.” In the early days, she seldom sailed without a band in attendance.
The Noronic plied the waterways between Canada and the United States for years, as did her sister ships, the SS Huronic and the SS Hamonic.
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 Where can I find Ss Morro Castle information?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The SS Morro Castle was a intemperance cruise transfer of the 1930s that was formed for the Ward Line for paces New York City 'n Havana, Cuba.
In March of 1930, the SS Morro Castle was christened, succeeded in May by her sister ship, the SS Oriente.
A fourth transfer to cooperate in the rescue exercisings was the SS President Cleveland, which fired a motor boat that made a cursory circuit approximately the Morro Castle and, upon peering lightweight in the thin progressing her route, retrieved her motor boat 'n south the scene.
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 Alumni Affairs
The SS Noronic – flagship of the Canada Steamship Lines and the largest passenger cruise ship on the Great Lakes – had come to a fiery end on the night of 16 September 1949 while docked in Toronto harbour at the foot of Yonge Street.
The Noronic was a magnificent craft, a stately queen of the Lakes - five decks, carved staircases, walls of teak, oak and cherry, a ballroom and many opulent facilities for pampering her guests.
The Noronic had been exempted from regulations requiring fire-resistant and fire-retardant bulkheads because of her age - 37 years – grand-fathered in or out so to speak.
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 118 die aboard cruise ship SS Noronic - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
In the early morning hours of Sept. 17, 1949 passengers aboard the SS Noronic were awakened by chaos and panicked screams.
• The flagship of Canadian Steamship Lines, the SS Noronic was carrying 524 passengers and 171 crew when it dropped anchor in Toronto's harbour at 6 p.m.
Since the Noronic was docked, passengers were forced to either jump into Lake Ontario or risk a more than 30 metre jump from the deck to the concrete dock.
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 USQUE AD MARE - A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
SS Noronic shortly after her building in 1913.
The cause of fire was never ascertained with certainty but it spread with lightning rapidity, flashing through the long corridors of accommodation with tremendous heat which asphyxiated many of the guests as they lay asleep in their cabins.
Justice Kellog on the Noronic fire marked the beginning of a new phase in steamship inspection and the standards of Canadian marine regulations for protection against fire.
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 SS Yarmouth Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SS Yarmouth Castle was a steamship whose loss in a disastrous fire in 1965 prompted new laws regarding safety at sea.
Yarmouth Castle fire was the worst disaster in North American waters since Noronic burned and sank in Toronto Harbor with the loss of up to 139 lives in 1949.
An investigation into the sinking was launched by the U.S. Coast Guard, which issued a 27-page report on the disaster in March of 1966.
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 Eye Weekly - St Christopher - 04.07.05
Aboard the SS Noronic, a pleasure liner docked in the Toronto harbour, she flirts gaily with an enigmatic businessman (Ashley Wright), then whacks him over the head with a suitcase, killing him.
Christopher is based on a true incident — a real fire that happened aboard a real SS Noronic, involving more than 100 deaths — and Hahn’s exploitation of that tragedy for some cheap, sub-Scooby Doo crime shenanigans is disturbing.
He’s not helped, though, by director Vikki Anderson, who shrouds the magnificent set of the Toronto harbour in darkness for the whole play, or by Riccio, whose cockney accent is one of the worst I’ve ever heard, distracting to the point of nausea.
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 SS Noronic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The SS Noronic had two sister ships, the SS Huronic and the SS Hamonic.
The Noronic docked for the night at Pier 9 in Toronto Harbour on the evening of Friday, September 16.
After an hour of fighting the blaze, the Noronic was so full of water from fire hoses that it listed severely toward the pier, causing firefighters to retreat.
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 Sinking Of The Ss Noronic
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On September 14, 1949, 522 people set out on what they thought would be a enjoyable one week cruise, for 122 of them it turned out to be their last.
ss noronic • sinking of the ss noronic • great lakes history • great lakes liners sinking • great lakes disaster
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 International Metropolis » SS Noronic & Hamonic
Back in October 2005, I ran a peice on the SS Hamonic with help/contributions from T.R. Anderson II.
The Noronic with a large loss of life in Toronto September 17, 1949
Like quite a few other famous nautical disasters, this one is no stranger to gross neglect on the crew’s part, both in terms of contributing to the disaster and in the poor response to it.
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