Tourists and Students Celebrate 111 Years of Panama Canal
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The Ancon was a cargo steamboat and passengers belonging to the American-flagged Panama Railroad Steamship Company. Originally built in 1901 under the name Shawmut, it was acquired by the U.S. government in 1909 to operate on the Caribbean route and serve as transport in the Panama Canal works. Its most remembered moment came on August 15, 1914, when it became the first boat to officially cross the Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic Ocean with t…
The interoceanic road commemorates more than a century of history in a day that also coincides with the 506th anniversary of the founding of Panama City.
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