Bishop Rock
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The Bishop Rock is a skerry off the British coast in the northern Atlantic Ocean known for its lighthouse. It is in the westernmost part of the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago 45 kilometres off the so
Bishop Rock Lighthouse in 2005
Bishop Rock with its lighthouse
Trinity Cottages, The Garrison, St Mary's (dating from 1858).
Bishop Rock lighthouse as rebuilt by Douglass (photographed in 1966).
Blue Riband
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The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest average speed. The term was borrowed from horse racing and
Bishop Rock
…end being the entrance to Lower New York Bay. This was the route that ocean liners took when competing for the transatlantic speed record, known as the Blue Riband. In the late 13th century, when the Isles of Scilly were under the jurisdiction of John de Allet and his wife Isabella, anyone convicted of felony…
SS United States, last winner of the Blue Riband
Cunard's Mauretania. She held the Blue Riband for the second-longest period of any ship, for 20 years, from 1909 to 1929.
Sirius is considered the first Atlantic record-holder for her 1838 voyage to New York at 8.03 knots (14.87 km/h)
In 1843, Great Western recorded a record-breaking voyage of 10.03 knots (18.58 km/h)