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Robert Ropner (1838 - 1924)
TRUNK STEAMERS. The inventors of this type of vessel are Messrs. Ropner & Son, the well known shipbuilders of Stockton-on-Tees. The trunk steamer is essentially a cargo vessel which possesses special facilities for the stowage of bulk cargoes, and advantages in the navigation of the vessel.... The special feature of this vessel is the trunk erection. This trunk is strongly framed and plated, and can be made thoroughly substantial. It extends from the poop to the bridge, and from the bridge to the forecastle, into each of which the sides of the trunk are scarphed...."
Extract from: Steel ships, their construction and maintenance : a manual for shipbuilders, ship superintendents, students, and marine engineers. Thomas Walton, 1901
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Sir (Emil Hugo Oscar) Robert Ropner, 1st Bt
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Sir Robert Ropner - Victorian Entrepreneur
- "Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner was born in Magdeburg, Prussia in 1838.
Both of his parents died of cholera when he was ten but they had left enough money for …
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Sir (Emil Hugo Oscar) Robert Ropner, 1st Bt
- Photo by Benjamin Stone, 1901, from the House of Commons Library c/o The National Portrait Gallery. Image available under a non commercial Creative Commons by-nc-nd/3.0 licence.
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To the Memory of Sir Robert Ropner who died 26th February 1924.
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
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To the Memory of Mary Anne Ropner who died 29th October 1921. The wife of Sir Robert Ropner Bt.
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
![](/static/img/External_Website.png)
from https://heritage.stockton.gov…
Sir Robert Ropner - Victorian Entrepreneur
- "Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner was born in Magdeburg, Prussia in 1838.
Both of his parents died of cholera when he was ten but they had left enough money for …
Added by
Simon Cotterill