 | RMS Segwun and Muskoka Wharf The RMS Segwun at the Muskoka Wharf, Gravenhurst, Canada |
 | RMS Segwun docking Giving a little tour of the Segwun as she docks. My brother was bugging me while I filmed this. |
 | RMS Segwun's engines The engine of RMS Segwun, North America's oldest operating steamship. Taken in Gravenhurst, Canada. |
 | Cruiseship Kristina Regina M/S Kristina Regina is a cruiseship owned by the Finnish shipping company Kristina Cruises. She was originally built in 1960 by Oskarshamn shipyard, Oskarshamn, Sweden as the car/passenger ferry S/S Bore for Steamship Company Bore, Finland. She was later known as S/S Borea, before being rebuilt in her current form in 1988. S/S Bore was built at the Oskarshamn shipyard in Oskarshamn, Sweden as the last steamship to be built in the Nordic Countries. On April 5, 1960 she was delivered to the Finnish Bore Steamship Company, who were at the time collaborating with Finland Steamship Company and Rederi AB Svea (this collaboration gave birth to Silja Line in 1970). She was initially placed on the route Turku — Mariehamn — Stockholm, although she was often used on the Helsinki — Stockholm route as well. Most Bore Steamship Company's ships had a number in their name (Bore I, Bore II, etc), and the lack of number in the name of this ship led to it being nicknamed Nolla-Bore (Zero-Bore) by Finnish seamen. In 1972 the ship was rebuilt with additional cabins. She ended service with Silja Line in September 1976, after which she was laid up in Stockholm until October 1977 when she was sold to Jakob Lines, a company Bore Steamship owned a large share of. She was renovated and renamed S/S Borea. In 1978, the Borea started operating between Jakobstad and Skellefteå. Generally Jakob Lines only operated her during the summer months, the rest of the year was spent either laid up or occasionally chartered to other companies. Jakob Lines sold the ship in 1984 to Finnish Aura Line who used her to restart steamship traffic from Turku to Stockholm as a tourist venture. Borea started traffic for Aura Line in June 1984, but already in October of the same year Aura Line was declared bankrupt. The ship spent another year laid up, until she was sold to a Canadian businessman who planned to convert her to a luxury cruiseship. The plan was never carried out, and the ship continued to be laid up in Turku until January 1987 when Rannikkolinjat, a Finnish company later known as Kristina Cruises, purchased her. The ship was extensively rebuilt as a cruise ship, her steam engines switched to diesel ones and she was renamed M/S Kristina Regina. In 1988, Kristina Regina was placed on cruise traffic from Finland mostly to destinations along the Gulf of Finland, but later also destinations in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa's west coast. As of February 2007, she is the only Finnish cruiseship in service |
 | RMS Segwun Docking II Another video of the Segwun on the same day. My brother still bugging me. |
 | SS Master Steam Powered Toy Boat The SS Master Society, a registered charity, is selling this steam powered tin toy tugboat, as a means of raising funds to maintain the last Wooden Hull Steam Engined Tugboat of Her type in North America. The SS MASTER was built in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1922, around a surplus Royal Navy World War 1 Minesweeper Triple Expansion Steam Engine. The Master is a Heritage Object, and as such, is the last example of an almost forgotten part of Our steam driven maritime past. The Tin Toy Boats are powered by a candle or olive oil fired flash pan boiler that heats the water to steam that is then expelled out of two tubes at the stern of the boat. This then creates a vacuum, and then the cycle is repeated, with the fresh water being drawn back through the two pipes into the boiler (because of the vacuum), and the heating of the water to a steam jet repeats. They make an excellent gift for Children, Fathers and Grandfathers alike! If You would like to support the SS MASTER preservation efforts, consider purchasing one of these tugboats from Our website. Please Visit Our Website at: www.ssmaster.org |
 | NaTuRal HiGhZ this is a shop in Amsterdam selling hemp products and Elliot Smith is singing it's strange how most of the natural and very useful 'drugs' are illegal, yet you can buy all the harmful and dangerous 'drugs' on any high street, hmmmmm, why is that i wonder?? btw the foto at the end is a good friend of mine stood in front of one of his 8 foot tall babies :) *dedicated to daRealJermo2 fella who cultivates and makes bazzin tunes! http://nl.youtube.com/daRealJermo2 DO YOU USE HEMP FOR ANYTHING? 8000BC Civilization, agriculture and hemp textile industries begin in Europe and Asia. 3727BC Cannabis called a "superior" herb in the world's first medical text, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China. 1500BC Cannabis-using Scythians sweep through Europe and Asia, settle down everywhere, and invent the scythe. 500BC Gautama Buddah survives by eating hempseed. 450BC Herodotus records Scythians and Thracians as consuming cannabis and making fine linens of hemp. 300BC Carthage and Rome struggle for political and commercial power over hemp and spice trade routes in Mediterranean. 100BC Paper made from hemp and mulberry is invented in China. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100AD Roman surgeon Dioscorides names the plant cannabis sativa and describes various medicinal uses. Pliny tells of industrial uses and writes a manual on farming hemp. 500AD First botanical drawing of hemp in Constantinopolitanus 600AD Germans, Franks, Vikings, etc. all use hemp fibre. 1000AD The English word 'hempe' first listed in a dictionary. 1150AD Moslems use hemp to start Europe's first paper mill. Most paper is made from hemp for the next 700 years. 1492AD Hempen sails, caulking and rigging ignite age of discovery and help Columbus and his ships reach America. 1545 Hemp agriculture crosses the continent overland to Chile. 1564 King Phillip of Spain orders hemp grown throughout his empire, from modern-day Argentina to Oregon. 16th-17th Century Dutch achieve Golden Age through hemp commerce. Explorers find 'wilde hempe' in North America. 1619 Virginia colony makes hemp cultivation mandatory, followed by most other colonies. Europe pays hemp bounties. 1631 Hemp used as money throughout American colonies. 1776 American 'Declaration of Independence' drafted on hemp paper. 1791 President Washington sets duties on hemp to encourage domestic industry; Jefferson calls hemp "a necessity", and urges farmers to grow hemp instead of tobacco. 1801 Certain premiums offered to encourage the cultivation of hemp in Upper and Lower Canada. 1800's Australia survives two prolonged famines by eating virtually nothing but hemp seed for protein and hemp leaves for roughage. 1850's Petrochemical age begins. Toxic sulfite and chlorine processes make paper from trees, steamships replace sails, tropical fibres introduced. 1930's New machines invented to break hemp, process the fibre, and convert pulp or hurds into paper, plastics, etc. - Racist fears of Mexicans, Asians, and African Americans leads to outcry for cannabis to be outlawed. 1935 Compressed agricultural fibreboard invented in Sweden. 1937 Marijuana Tax Act forbids hemp farming in the US. -Dupont files patent for nylon. 1938 Canada prohibits production of hemp under Opium And Narcotics Control Act. 1941 Henry Ford makes car fabricated and fueled by hemp. 1943 Hemp For Victory program urges farmers to grow hemp. 1955 Hemp farming again banned. 1961 The Canadian Narcotics Control Act(CNCA) allowed Cannabis to be grown, at the discretion ofthe Health Minister, for research purposes only. 1992 Australia licences hemp farming. 1993 England eases restriction on hemp farming. News media declare hemp clothes and cannabis leaf logo hottest new fashion. 1994 Under the CNCA, one license was granted to a Canadian company, Hempline Inc., to grow hemp experimentally in Canada under the strict supervision of the authorities. 1996 The Canadian federal government passed Bill C8 stating that mature hemp stalks are exemptfrom the list of controlled substances. 1998 The Canadian government legalizes the commercial growth of industrial hemp. see News - February 27, 1998 1999 ........ |
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