Qualla: SS Noemijulia https://qualla.com/ss-noemijulia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: SS Noemijulia https://qualla.com/ss-noemijulia SS Noemijulia: Introduction https://qualla.com/ss-noemijulia/ She answered to seven names before the end. Barlby, Noemi, Noemijulia, Irish Hazel, Empire Don, Irish Hazel again, and finally Uman. Each name belonged to a different owner, a different flag, a different chapter of a long working life that began in a County Durham shipyard in 1895 and threaded its way through two world wars and a third, smaller, dirtier one. To stand on the shore of the Bay of Nouadhibou and look out at the hulks rusting in the shallows is to look at the kind of fate ships like her meet: not a dramatic sinking, but a slow surrender to salt, sand, and forgetting.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/4/w/ss-noemijulia-wp/ee4w-ss-noemijulia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SS Noemijulia: Launched on the Tees https://qualla.com/ss-noemijulia/ On 4 October 1895, a cargo steamer slid into the water at the yard of R. Ropner & Son in Stockton-on-Tees, England. She was launched as Barlby, yard number 312, and completed that November. At 290 feet long with a beam of 47 feet, she was a workaday tramp steamer of nearly 3,750 ...

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