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The second USS Ohio was a ship of the line of the United States Navy, rated at 74 guns, although her total number of guns was 104. [1] She was designed by Henry Eckford , laid down at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1817, and launched on 30 May 1820.
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.
They went on to build an additional 30 ships for the USSB [2] (including 8 Design 1020 ships). After World War I, due to a post-war glut of ships, they focused on repair work. [2] They returned to shipbuilding in 1920 and launched 14 ships through 1930. [2] During the Great Depression, they returned to ship repair. [2]
The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the Second World War. It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio [ 1 ] in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio in 1898.
The Atlantic triangular trade formed a major component of the colonial American economy, involving Europe, Africa and the Americas.The primary component of the transatlantic triangular trade consisted of slave ships from Europe sailing to Africa loaded with manufactured goods; once the ships arrived at African shores, the European slavers would exchange the goods aboard their ships for ...
Of all the unusual things one could come across while kayaking, an abandoned ship definitely takes the cake for most surprising discovery. James Malott and his friends were kayaking down the Ohio ...
The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
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