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A United States World War II recruiting poster for the merchant marine. World War II United States Merchant Navy was the largest civilian Navy in the world, which operated during World War II. With the United States fighting a world war in all the world oceans, the demand for cargo and fuel was very high.
Naval Vessel Register -NAVY SHIP CLASSIFICATIONS; U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II; Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945; HISTORIC SHIPS TO VISIT - LISTED BY TYPE OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE; NavSource Naval History; Summary of Vessels Built in WWII, by Type; Comparison of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Vessels in World War II; Army Ships—The Ghost Fleet
U.S. Maritime Commission "Ships for Victory" emblem. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II.
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 295 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1936, the American Merchant Marine Act was passed to subsidize the annual construction of 50 commercial merchant vessels which could be used in wartime by the United States Navy as naval auxiliaries, crewed by U.S. Merchant Mariners. The number was doubled in 1939 and again in 1940 to 200 ships a year.
Category: World War II merchant ships. 7 languages. ... World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 295 P) W. World War II merchant ships of Yugoslavia (2 P)
United States Merchant Marine, 414 SS Victory cargo ships. World War II, some used in the Korean War and Vietnam War. 97 Victory ships temporarily converted to World War II troopship. [20] One ship SS Pratt Victory with engineering spaces converted to unmanned operation and used with a reduced Navy crew as a temporary minesweeper in 1945 and 1946.