- The Blue
Riband (/
ˈrɪbənd/) is an
unofficial accolade given to the p****enger
liner crossing the
Atlantic Ocean in
regular service with the
record highest...
- A
ribbon or
riband is a thin band of material,
typically cloth but also
plastic or
sometimes metal, used
primarily as
decorative binding and tying. Cloth...
- Look up Blue
Riband in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Blue
Riband is an
accolade given to the p****enger ship that held the
fastest record for transatlantic...
- OBE
badge and
riband (military division) CBE
badge and
riband (military division) When the
order was
founded in 1917, badges,
ribands and
stars were...
- The
riband wave (Idaea aversata) is a moth of the
family Geometridae. The
species was
first described by Carl
Linnaeus in his 1758 10th
edition of Systema...
- new
concepts emerged to deal with this threat.
Among them was the Blue
Riband radar,
which used a
dozen 8 MW
klystrons that
randomly changed frequencies...
- Blue
Riband is a
chocolate biscuit currently produced by Nestlé. The bar was
launched in 1936 by Gray Dunn, one of Scotland's
major biscuit producers and...
-
liner to
cross the
Atlantic Ocean in
either direction,
earning the Blue
Riband for the
highest average speed since her
maiden voyage in 1952, a
title that...
- Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the next 30 years,
Cunard held the Blue
Riband for the
fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s
Cunard fell behind...
- knots. A race for
speed was born, and, with it, the
tradition of the Blue
Riband. With
Great Western,
Isambard Kingdom Brunel laid the
foundations for new...
