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  • Thumbnail for Ulysses S. Grant
    by a 1789 law. Grant then appointed Massachusetts Representative George S. Boutwell Secretary of Treasury. Philadelphia businessman Adolph E. Borie was...
    187 KB (22,622 words) - 23:36, 4 October 2024
  • through Je. "Photograph of Mrs. I. M. Aiken christening the Liberty ship 'George W. Crawford', J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia...
    80 KB (237 words) - 03:45, 8 July 2024
  • SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert...
    10 KB (1,046 words) - 12:38, 19 August 2024
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    Preston George S. Boutwell Elijah Kellogg, stranded outside Karachi harbor, broke in two and sank on June 27, 1952. Harry Kirby Francis A. Retka SS John...
    7 KB (594 words) - 17:07, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg
    USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) (originally named USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145)) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship in the...
    16 KB (1,564 words) - 21:16, 3 August 2024
  • leaking, abandoned off Yucatán Peninsula, towed to be scrap but sank. SS George S. Boutwell, Liberty ship built in 1943, purchased in 1955 and renamed Rayvah...
    9 KB (978 words) - 02:26, 30 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for SS Red Oak Victory
    SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum...
    10 KB (749 words) - 15:37, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS General C. H. Muir
    (T-AP-142). She was later sold for commercial operation under the names SS Chicago and SS San Juan, and was scrapped some time after 1985. General C. H. Muir...
    10 KB (908 words) - 19:54, 9 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for John F. Kennedy
    arrangements for American survivors of the torpedoing of SS Athenia before flying back to the U.S. on his first transatlantic flight. While Kennedy was an...
    232 KB (23,699 words) - 02:23, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS General S. D. Sturgis
    General S. D. Sturgis (T-AP-137). She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Green Port, before being scrapped in 1980. General S. D. Sturgis...
    14 KB (1,458 words) - 00:53, 23 September 2024
  • SS Uriah M. Rose (MC contract 2729) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Uriah M. Rose, an influential...
    3 KB (193 words) - 00:11, 2 June 2024
  • ship of the Navy to bear this name. Prince Georges was laid down on 20 September 1942, as liberty ship SS Richard March Hoe, MCE hull 426, by Permanente...
    7 KB (536 words) - 21:54, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Alcoa Puritan (1941)
    Gulf of Mexico during World War II. The SS Alcoa Puritan provided freight and passenger service between U.S. and Caribbean ports. The ship was typically...
    8 KB (895 words) - 19:44, 7 January 2024
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    USS Arided (redirect from SS Noah H. Swayne)
    was laid down under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract as liberty ship SS Noah H. Swayne, MC hull 500, 20 September 1942 at Richmond, California, by...
    8 KB (631 words) - 11:06, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Alexander Majors
    SS Alexander Majors was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. The ship was named in honor of Alexander Majors...
    6 KB (582 words) - 16:21, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Talladega
    (APA/LPA-208) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the US Navy. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type. Talladega was named for Talladega County, Alabama...
    17 KB (1,402 words) - 14:19, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Groote Beer
    Chandris Liners and Celebrity Cruises by Peter Plowman Hugo's Groote Beer page ssMaritime: Dutch Victory Ships Sawyer, L.A. and W.H. Mitchell. Victory ships...
    9 KB (735 words) - 14:37, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Fordham Victory
    Olympia S.S. Corporation and renamed back to the Fordham Victory. In 1957 she was sold to the Marine Bulk Carriers Inc of New York and renamed the SS Wang...
    9 KB (708 words) - 14:33, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richmond Shipyards
    Boulevard Berth 5, Richmond is the SS Red Oak Victory Cargo ship a Museum ship. Kaiser Richmond No. 3 Yard thus became the U.S. National Register of Historic...
    16 KB (1,734 words) - 17:18, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel S. Cox
    anxious to annoy his opponents than to extinguish them," Congressman George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts wrote, in a typical dismissal. "His speeches were...
    43 KB (4,726 words) - 05:03, 25 August 2024
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