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During World War I, when it was originally known as the Hoboken Port of Embarkation with headquarters in seized Hamburg America Line facilities in Hoboken, New Jersey, the Quartermaster Corps had responsibility. The sub-ports were at Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and the Canadian ports of Halifax, Montreal and St. Johns.
At Hoboken on 2 May she landed 53 officers and 1,645 men of the 77th Infantry Division, most of whom were members of the 302nd Engineer Regiment. [67] Also aboard were 500 civilian passengers. [68] On 4 November 1919 Nieuw Amsterdam arrived in Hoboken carrying 165 barrels of aniline dyes from Germany.
It left Hoboken on December 21, called at San Juan, La Guaira and Kingston, Jamaica, [84] and got back to Hoboken on January 3, 1949. [85] Her third cruise was an 18-day voyage that added Cap-Haïtien and Ciudad Trujillo to her more usual ports of call. It left Hoboken on January 21, carrying 650 passengers. Two similar cruises followed. [82]
She joined Convoy HX 105, which left Halifax on 25 January 1941 and reached Liverpool on 9 February. [15] On 8 March 1941 Maasdam left Liverpool with Convoy OB 295, which dispersed at sea. On 2 April 1941 she left Hoboken, New Jersey [12] carrying grain and general cargo. On her return voyage she joined Convoy HX 119B, which left Halifax on 6 ...
On the 22d they were transported to the Port of Entry, Hoboken, and were boarded on the RMS Baltic. The next day, they left Pier 59, en route to Halifax, Nova Scotia where the ship anchored awaiting for a convoy. Finally, on 5 September, the convoy was formed and the trans-Atlantic journey began. [2]
SS Volendam was a Dutch-owned transatlantic liner, launched in Scotland in 1922 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1952. She was part of the first generation of turbine-powered steamships in the Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) fleet.
New York – Boston – Halifax - St. John's - Londonderry; Torpedoed and sank 1942 Purpose-built for Eastern Steamship Lines [18] at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Sparrow's Point MD; Given to Britain and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport in 1942 [25] New York: 1924 1924-1941 New York – Boston – Halifax - St. John's - Londonderry
Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or sometimes Hempstead Plains field or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was a training field (Hazelhurst Field) for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I.