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Pages in category "Merchant ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 439 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Liberty ships (14 C, 583 P) 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.
Age of Sail merchant ships of the United States include merchant ships designed, built, or operated by the United States during the Age of Sail (approximately 1570 to 1860). Business portal Modern history portal
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 ...
The following is a list, by period and country, of armed merchant ships used since the late 19th century in the role of auxiliary cruisers, also called armed merchant cruisers. RMS Carmania sinking SMS Cap Trafalgar near the Brazilian islands of Trindade , 14 September 1914.
Tassie III (S-77) of the Small Ships Section, United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOSSWPA) at a hideout at Mubo Salamaua Area, Morobe, New Guinea 1943. As there was a need for a fleet of shallow-draft vessels that could navigate among coral reefs, use primitive landing places far up the coast of New Guinea, and ...
Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor in 1850 or 1851 In 1852, the lighthouse board established and published first Light List and Notice to Mariners . In 1854, Andrew Furuseth was born in Norway, and Western river engineers form a "fraternal organization" that is a precursor to MEBA .
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS S. Hall Young: S. Hall Young: 479 standard 2 March 1943: 31 March 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Babcock: Stephen Moulton Babcock: 590 standard 5 October 1942: 1 November 1942: Scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Shoemaker: S. M. Shoemaker: 2667 standard 8 July 1944: 10 ...