Anchor Line (steamship company)
Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company that was founded in 1855 and dissolved in 1980.
Anchor's 16,297 GRT liner RMS Cameronia (1919), a sister ship of the Cunarder RMS Lancastria
The 255 GRT barquentine Ailsa Craig was built for Handyside and Henderson in 1860 and lost at sea in 1865
The sinking of the SS Utopia 1891 eyewitness painting
Columbia was a 8,292 GRT passenger liner built for Anchor Line in 1902 and sold in 1926
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The 193.30-kilometre-long (120.11 mi) canal is a key trade route between Europe and Asia.
The Suez Canal from space, showing the Great Bitter Lake at the centre (after the 2015 expansion)
Aerial view of the Suez Canal at Suez
The southern terminus of the Suez Canal at Suez on the Gulf of Suez, at the northern end of the Red Sea
Bathymetric chart, northern Gulf of Suez, route to Cairo, 1856