SS Laura (1885)
SS Laura was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1885.
History
The ship was built of Siemens Martin steel by the Aitken and Mansel of Whiteinch and launched on 20 March 1885 by Miss Alice Fleming of Eltham Kent. She had accommodation for about 150 passengers, exclusive of third class passengers.
On 27 January 1886 she was on a voyage from Southampton to St Malo when the bottom of her high pressure cylinder blew out, scalding one of the firemen, and disabling the ship about 15 miles north of Guernsey. The tugs Rescue and Alert were sent from Guernsey to render her assistance.
In 1910, 21 miles south of the Needle’s lighthouse, she collided with the Norwegian ship Sophie, of Lavinia, bound from Caleta Buena for Hamburg loaded with nitrate. The Sophie was struck on the starboard quarter and started to flood.
In January 1911 she collided with her sister ship Lydia during a dense fog off the Needles and on 14 January 1914 the Hamburg-Amerika Company’s tender Ariadne collided with her.
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Laura (Scissor Sisters song)
"Laura" is a song by American glam rock band Scissor Sisters and is the lead track on their self-titled debut album (see 2004 in music). It was released as the band's first single in October 2003 in the UK, placing at #54 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2003 in British music). It was later re-issued on June 7, 2004, charting at #12 in the same chart (see 2004 in British music).
In Australia, the song was ranked #58 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.
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Initial UK release
UK re-issue
Official remixes
Laura (Giorgione)
Laura, formerly sometimes known as Portrait of a Young Bride, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, c. 1506. It hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
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