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Design 1023 Ships
The Design 1023 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1023) was a steel-hulled cargo ship design approved for mass production by the United States Shipping Boards (USSB) Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) in World War I. Like many of the early designs approved by the EFC, the Design 1023 did not originate with the EFC itself but was based on an existing cargo ship designed by Theodore E. Ferris for the United States Shipping Board (USSB). The ships, to be built by the Submarine Boat Corporation of Newark, New Jersey, were the first to be constructed under a standardized production system worked out by Ferris and approved by the USSB. The first contract envisioned construction of fifty vessels and was placed by USSB with Submarine Boat Corp. on 14 September 1917 and included EFC hulls 547-596. Two months later, on 16 November 1917, USSB placed two additional optional orders with the same shipbuilder for sixty eight and thirty two vessels, respectively. This brought the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Coast Farmer
''Coast Farmer'', gaining the name in 1937 and previously bearing the names ''Point Arena'' (1928) and ''Riverside Bridge'' (1920), was a U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1023 ship ordered under the name ''Minnewawa'' and built as hull #103 by Submarine Boat Company, Newark, New Jersey in 1920 ''Coast Farmer'' is noted as being a part of the Pensacola Convoy landing the supplies and troops intended for the Philippines in Darwin, Australia after being diverted on the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship became even more notable being the first of only three ships successfully running the Japanese blockade into the Philippines; leaving Brisbane FebruaryReferences, including cited official histories, have differing days of departure in February. 1942.Charles Dana Gibson notes the food supplies, transshipped from Mindanao aboard two Filipino coasters, with only the ''Elcano'' making Corregidor, were largely spoiled and "canned goods had lost their labe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses , New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022.New Jersey County Map , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed December 27, 2022. As of the 2020 U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Wake Island
The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. The assault began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender of United States Armed Forces, American forces to the Empire of Japan. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese Empire against those of the United States, with Marine (military), Marines playing a prominent role on both sides. The battle started with a surprise bombing raid on 8 December 1941, within hours of Pearl Harbor, and the air raids continued almost every day for the duration of the battle. There were two amphibious assaults, one on 11 December 1941 (which was rebuffed) and another on 23 December, that led to the Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Suremico
''Suremico'' was a Design 1023 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) immediately after World War I. She was later named the ''Nisqually'' and converted into a barge and later a scow. She was bombed and sunk during the Battle of Wake Island. History She was laid down at yard number 139 at the Newark, New Jersey shipyard of the Submarine Boat Corporation (SBC), one of 132 Design 1023 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board (there were 154 ships of the class built in total). She was launched on 17 September 1920, completed in October 1920, and named the SS ''Suremico''. She was named after William H. Remick, former president of the New York Stock Exchange (her name being a portmanteau of her manufacturer and her namesake, SUbmarine Boat REMIck COrporation). On June 3, 1927, while en route from Vancouver to Seattle with a load of lumber, she was involved in a collision in heavy fog with the French cargo ship SS ''Arkansas'' near the entrance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgas
Burgas (, ), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna, with a population of 280 000 inhabitants, while 310 000 live in its urban area. It is the capital of Burgas Province and an important industrial, transport, cultural and tourist centre. The city is surrounded by the Burgas Lakes and located at the westernmost point of the Black Sea, at the large Burgas Bay. LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas is the largest oil refinery in southeastern Europe and the largest industrial enterprise. The Port of Burgas is the second largest port in Bulgaria, and Burgas Airport is the second most important in the country. Burgas is the centre of the Bulgarian fishing and fish processing industry.Norman Polmar: ''The Naval Institute guide to the Soviet Navy'', 5. Ausgabe, United States Naval Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hōkoku Maru
was an that served as an armed merchant cruiser in the Second World War. She was launched in 1939 and completed in 1940 for Osaka Shosen Lines. In 1941 she was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy. She served as a commerce raider and submarine tender. Two Allied naval ships sank her in a naval engagement in 1942. Building ''Hōkoku Maru'' was designed as a cargo liner for Shosen Line's scheduled services to South America. She was laid down at the Tama shipyard in Okayama Prefecture on 18 August 1938. She was launched on 5 July 1939 and completed on 22 June 1940.Hackett & Kingsepp Designed as a luxury ocean liner, she had a luxury suite of rooms called the Nara Suite after the city of that name. However, the Japanese admiralty influenced the design of the ''Hōkoku Maru''-class, to make them suitable for use as troop ships. The Japanese government provided large subsidies for such dual-purpose designs from 1936 onwards. ''Hōkoku Maru''s registered length was , her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aikoku Maru (1940)
was an armed merchant cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The ship entered service in 1940, the ship was later converted to an ammunition ship. She was sunk in February 1944 during Operation Hailstone. Design ''Aikoku Maru'' was laid down at the Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Mitsui Tamano shipyards in Okayama Prefecture on 29 December 1938. The vessel measured 10,438 gross register tons, with a length of . Powered by two Mitsui B&W diesel engines with driving twin screws, she was capable of . The vessel was launched on 25 April 1940, and was named ''Aikoku Maru'' at that time. She was designed to be a combined passenger liner / cargo vessel for the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Osaka Shosen Lines's regularly scheduled services to South America. Provisionally named ''Kyoto'', the design for the new vessel was to have boasted of luxurious suite rooms. The vessel was built with large government subsidies provided from 1936 to encourage the production of large, hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
