SS St Petersburg SS St Petersburg TrSS "St Petersburg" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1910. "St Petersburg" was built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1910. She was launched by Miss Green, daughter of Frederick Green, director of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was placed on the Harwich-to-Hook of Holland route. "St Petersburg" was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the First World War and renamed Archangel in 1916. She was used as a cross-channel troopship. After the war "Archangel" returned to railway ownership, and in
20th-century music had earlier been called race music, and country music. See also rock musical and rock opera. 20th-century music During the 20th century there was a huge increase in the variety of music that people had access to. Prior to the invention of mass market gramophone records (developed in 1892) and radio broadcasting (first commercially done ca. 1919–20), people mainly listened to music at live Classical music concerts or musical theatre shows, which were too expensive for many lower-income people; on early phonograph players (a technology invented in 1877 which was not mass-marketed until the mid-1890s); or by individuals performing music