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Name Type Class Authorized Dates of Service Fate Mississippi [1]: 2nd class [2]: Mississippi-class [1]: 3 March 1839 [1]: 1841 – 1863 [1]: Sunk in action at Port Hudson, 64 killed ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
Out of Service since 1969, Laid Up SS Monterey: 1952/1955 Matson Line: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co, at Sparrow's Point, Maryland [19] Scrapped 2006 Ordered by the U.S. Maritime Administration as cargo vessel SS Free State Mariner, completed 1952. [30] Converted to passenger ship by Matson Line in 1955. SS Mariposa: 1953/1955 Matson Line
While steam turbine-driven merchant ships such as the Algol-class cargo ships (1972–1973), ALP Pacesetter-class container ships (1973–1974) [37] [38] and very large crude carriers were built until the 1970s, the use of steam for marine propulsion in the commercial market has declined dramatically due to the development of more efficient ...
Compound engines, in which steam was expanded twice for greater efficiency, were first used on the Great Lakes in 1869. Triple-expansion engines , for even greater efficiency, were introduced in 1887 and quadruple-expansion engines , the ultimate type of reciprocating engine for speed, power and efficiency, appeared on the lakes in 1894.
SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that entered service in 1960. Built between April 1959 and January 1960 for the Inland Steel Company, she was the third of the thirteen so-called 730-class of lake freighters, each of which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the Lakes", as a result of their record-breaking length.
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SS Illinois was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The last of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Illinois and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.