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Brasil was a replacement for Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. 's SS Brazil (1928). Brasil and her sister ship, Argentina, used MARAD Design P2-S2-9a.Construction was subsidized by the United States Maritime Administration under title V, sections 501 and 504 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. [1]
Argentina was a replacement for Moore-McCormack's SS Argentina (1929). Argentina and her sister ship, Brasil, used MARAD Design P2-S2-9a.Construction was subsidized by the United States Maritime Administration under title V, sections 501 and 504 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936.
In 1922, Moore Shipbuilding renamed to the Moore Dry Dock Company, operating primarily as a repair yard, amidst a severe lack of demand for new construction in the 1920s and early 1930s. Its shipbuilding capabilities were again promptly expanded for the World War II boom, providing over 100 ships for the U.S. Navy and merchant marine . [ 3 ]
Empire Avocet was a 5,963 GRT refrigerated cargo ship built in 1919 by the Moore Shipbuilding Co., Oakland. Originally owned by United States Shipping Board and named Cotati . To United States Maritime Commission in 1937 and MoWT in 1942, managed by New Zealand Shipping Co. Torpedoed and sunk on 29 September 1942 by U 125 at 04°05′N 13°23 ...
The SS Samuel Mather was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden Mather sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay 8 miles (13 km) from Point Iroquois, ending the Mather's 4-year career.
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The Cayman Islands Coast Guard is the maritime security and search and rescue agency of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands.It was formed in late 2018 under the umbrella of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service and was officially made as its own entity in 2021.
SS M.M. Drake was a wooden steam barge that towed consorts loaded with coal and iron ore on the Great Lakes.She came to the rescue of the crews of at least four foundering vessels in her 19-year career only to meet the same fate in her final rescue attempt.