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SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania . The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War .
SS Ohio was a tanker launched in 1940 by Sun Shipbuilding for the Texas Oil Company; figured prominently in Operation Pedestal, the Allied resupply of Malta in World War II. SS Ohio may also refer to the following ships: SS Ohio (1869), a Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger liner launched in 1869 by Caird & Company [1]
Liberty ship: Cargo Ship [59] SS John W. Brown: United States Maryland: Baltimore: United States: 1942 Liberty ship: Cargo Ship [60] SS Lane Victory: United States California: San Pedro: United States: 1945 Victory Ship: Cargo Ship: U.S. Merchant Marine [61] SS Red Oak Victory: United States California: Richmond: United States: 1944 Victory ...
SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, [1] and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.
List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) are indicated in the last column.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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Near-short units. The Engineer Amphibian Brigade, redesignated in 1943 as Engineer Special Brigade provided personnel and equipment for transporting combat troops from a friendly near shore to a hostile far shore when the distance is not over 100 miles. The brigade resupplies these troops during the early stages of establishing a beachhead.