* SS Robin, world's oldest complete steam coaster ( a class of steamship )

* SS Robin

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

The SS Robin, a 300-tonne steam-powered coaster which is part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection and the last of its type still in existence, was built at Orchard House Yard in 1890, and is currently moored a short distance away at West India Quay in London Docklands.

SS Robin is a 300-tonne steam coaster, a class of steamship licensed only for passage in coastal waters, the oldest complete example in the world, situated at the Royal Docks in London, England for restoration and later display from 2013.

SS Robin is one of three ships in London on the Core Collection of the National Historic Ships Register ( the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building ); the others are Cutty Sark and HMS Belfast.

On the Lloyds register she is registered as TMS SS Robin – Tri Masted Schooner.

However, it appears that this classification is incorrect: SS Robin is a steam vessel and was unlikely to have been used as a sailing auxiliary.

SS Robin was built in 1890 by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. of Orchard House Yard, Bow Creek.

SS Robin was towed to Scotland to have the engine, the boiler and the auxiliary machinery fitted by Gourlay Brothers of Dundee.

SS Robin was launched on 16 September 1890, and after being fitted out in East India Docks was towed to Dundee to have the engine and auxiliary machinery fitted.

In 1892 SS Robin was sold to Andrew Forrester Blackwater of Glasgow.

In 1900 SS Robin was sold and renamed the Maria ; for the next 75 years or so she had three different Spanish owners.

SS Robin, November 2005.

SS Robin was discovered by the Maritime Trust in 1972.

A new mooring was offered in 1991 at West India Quay where SS Robin stayed until 2008.

SS Robin is now listed on the core collection of the National Historic Ships register alongside Cutty Sark, HMS Belfast and Discovery.

In 2002 David and Nishani Kampfner bought SS Robin and founded the SS Robin Trust as a registered charity.

SS Robin operated as a learning centre and photojournalism gallery between 2003-07, with an extensive programme of talks, seminars and workshops designed to build bridges between communities.

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, the restoration of the superstructure of SS Robin began in March 2002.

Without this compensation, necessitated by the Crossrail construction proposals and negotiated at the House of Lords Select Committee during the hybrid Bill process, it appeared likely that SS Robin would have had to be scrapped.

The fundamental technique is a partitioning of the total sum of squares SS into components related to the effects used in the model.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

Although the Bizerte ( Type PR 48 large patrol craft ) class L ' Audacieux is fitted for SS 12M missiles these are not embarked and its operational status is in some doubt, having not been reported at sea since 1995.

He is also responsible for three other extant works: a collection of letters, On the Translations and the Miracles of SS.

* 1918 – SS Tuscania ( 1914 ) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland ; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo, summed up this policy by saying, " As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally.

* 1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

When " Out of Step " was rerecorded for the LP Out of Step, MacKaye inserted a spoken section explaining, " This is not a set of rules ..." An ideological door had already been opened, however, and by 1982, some straight-edge punks, such as followers of the band SS Decontrol, were swatting beers out of people's hands at clubs.

The SS Xantho engine that was recovered in 1985 from a saline environment after over a century underwater is presently considered somewhat anomalous, in that after two decades of treatment it can now be turned over by hand.

* In " Security Systems ", he is reluctantly forced into a temporary exile with the fugitive Edison Carter when his off-hand comment that " SS even does security for Network 23 " makes them realize, too late, the mistake they have made in trying to hack A7 from Bryce's lab.

Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

Nuoro is served by the SS 131 DCN ( Olbia-Abbasanta ), the SS 129 ( Orosei-Macomer ), and the SS 389 ( Monti-Lanusei ).

In 1914, NNS built the SS Medina for the Mallory Steamship Company ; as the MV Doulos she is now the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship.

Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

In the water industry and for pharma applications SS 316 is normally used, as stainless steel gives better results at high temperatures.

The Red Army is widely credited with being the decisive force in the Allied victory in the European Theatre of World War II, having engaged and defeated about 80 % of the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht and much of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front.

One of Germany's leading scientific researchers and Head of the SS Special Projects Division, Wilhelm " Deathshead " Strasse, is preparing to launch an attack on London.

Oberführer ( Senior Colonel ) Wilhelm Strasse or Deathshead is a gifted researcher who heads the SS Special Projects Division.

Standartenführer ( SS Colonel ) Helga Von Bulow is a high-ranking officer within the SS Paranormal Division and also founder of the order of the Elite Guards, the SS Paranormal Division's all-female security force.

In February 1917, the British General Staff released a training pamphlet titled SS 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, espousing the return to the pre-war emphasis on fire and movement tactics and the use of the platoon as a self-contained tactical unit.

These tactics emerged gradually during the later years of World War I, used in various forms by the Russian general Aleksei Brusilov in Brusilov Offensive of 1916, by the British Third Army at the Battle of Arras in April 1917, following the reorganisation of British infantry platoons according to the new Manual SS 143, in the new year and by the Germany military in the Siege of Riga in September 1917 and the Battle of Caporetto in October 1917.

New tactics ( embodied in SS 135, Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action and SS. 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action ) and the equipment to exploit them, with the platoon becoming the principal tactical unit, in four sections: Lewis gun, rifle grenade, bomber and rifle ; with the creeping barrage, the graze fuse and counter-battery fire had been used, particularly in the first phase and had demonstrated that set-piece assaults against heavily fortified positions could be successful.

In February 1917, the British Army issued Manual SS 143, which prescribed infiltration tactics.

The British Army standard training manual for platoon tactics, SS 143, was used from February 1917 onwards and contained much of what was standard for German shock troops.