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Section Patrol
A Section Patrol Craft was a civilian vessel registered by the United States Navy for potential wartime service before, during, and shortly after World War I. Historical overview The SP/ID registration system In 1916, with World War I raging abroad, the U.S. Navy began a registry of privately owned pleasure craft and yachts that were available for patrol service in the event the United States was drawn into the conflict, which it eventually entered on 6 April 1917. Naval Registry Identification Numbers were assigned in a "Section Patrol" series beginning with SP-1 and ultimately extending to well over 4000. As the registration process continued, other types of ships and craft (such as cargo ships, tankers, and passenger ships) were included which were not suited or intended for patrol duty and for which the "Section Patrol" designation was clearly inappropriate, and these were generally given "Identification" ("ID") numbers in the same series as the "SP" numbers. In addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Piqua 102128
USS may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, a Canadian band * Universal Studios Singapore, a theme park in Singapore Businesses and organizations * Union of Sovereign States, the planned successor to the Soviet Union * Union Switch & Signal, a supplier of railroad switching equipment * Union Syndicale Suisse, the Swiss Trade Union Confederation * United Seamen's Service, a non-profit, federally chartered organization founded in 1942 * United State of Saurashtra, a separate, western State within the Union of India from 1948 until 1956 * United States Senate, the upper chamber of the United States Congress * U.S. Steel Corporation * USA Swimming, formerly United States Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming in the US * Universities Superannuation Scheme, a pension scheme in the United Kingdom * United Peasant Party (''Ujedinjena seljačka stranka''), a political party in Serbia Computing * Unformatted System Services, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulberry Harbor
The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. They were designed in 1942 then built in under a year in great secrecy; within hours of the Allies creating beachheads after D-Day, sections of the two prefabricated harbours were towed across the English Channel from southern England and placed in position off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B"), along with old ships to be sunk as breakwaters. The Mulberry harbours solved the problem of needing deepwater jetties and a harbour to provide the invasion force with the necessary reinforcements and supplies, and were to be used until major French ports could be captured and brought back into use after repair of the inevitable sabotage by German defenders. Comprising floating but sinkable breakwaters, floating pontoons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Navy Ships
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), although it does not include early vessels. The NVR ''US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols'' is a concise list of inactive definitions. The ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' includes much detail on historical ships, and was used as the basis for many of Wikipedia's ship articles. Due to the large number of entries, this list has been divided into the lists to be found in the infobox: * Ships in current service * Ships grouped alphabetically by the first letter of the ship's name * Ships grouped by type __NOTOC__ See also * List of U.S. military vessels named after living Americans * List of U.S. military vessels named after women * List of United States Navy ships named after US states * List of Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan (Motorboat)
''Swan'' was a Conservation Commission of Maryland motorboat. The United States Navy approached the Conservation Commission shortly after the nation's entry into World War I proposing the commission's boats be used to maintain constant local patrols. The state legislature agreed that the boats and men of the state force would become part of the U.S. Naval Reserve providing they patrol the same districts for fisheries enforcement as well as federal interests with the benefit that patrol time would be increased and the expense for all be paid by the federal government. ''Swan'' was thus acquired by the U.S. Navy on 17 August 1917 for section patrol duty in the 5th Naval District during World War I. The boat was apparently never commissioned or placed in service and was stricken from the Navy List A Navy Directory, Navy List or Naval Register is an official list of naval officers, their ranks and seniority, the ships which they command or to which they are appointed, etc., th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric Incandescent light bulb, light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial society, industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was raised in the American Midwest. Early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Canopus (AS-9)
USS ''Canopus'' (ID-4352-A/AS-9) was a submarine tender in the United States Navy, named for the star Canopus. ''Canopus'' was launched in 1919 by New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, as the passenger liner SS ''Santa Leonora'' for W. R. Grace and Company, but taken over by the U.S. Navy upon completion in July 1919 and commissioned as USS ''Santa Leonora'' (ID-4352-A). She was briefly employed as a trans-Atlantic troop transport before being decommissioned and transferred to the U.S. Army in September 1919. The ship was reacquired by the Navy from the United States Shipping Board, Shipping Board on 22 November 1921. The ship was converted to a submarine tender, and commissioned at Boston on 24 January 1922. Service history 1922–1941 ''Canopus'' reported to Submarine Force, United States Atlantic Fleet, Atlantic Fleet, and remained at Boston until 9 November 1922, when she sailed for further fitting out at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, Canal Zone, and San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constructive Total Loss
Marine insurance covers the physical loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport by which the property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and the final destination. Cargo insurance a sub-branch of marine insurance, though marine insurance also includes onshore and offshore exposed property, (container terminals, ports, oil platforms, pipelines), hull, marine casualty, and marine losses. When goods are transported by mail or courier or related post, shipping insurance is used instead. History In December 1901 and January 1902, at the direction of archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, Father Jean-Vincent Scheil, OP found a tall basalt or diorite stele in three pieces inscribed with 4,130 lines of cuneiform law dictated by Hammurabi (–1750 BC) of the First Babylonian Empire in the city of Shush, Iran. Code of Hammurabi Law 100 stipulated repayment by a debtor of a loan to a creditor on a schedule with a maturity date specified in wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Ophir
SS ''Ophir'' was a Dutch steamship that was built in 1904. She carried passengers, cargo and mail between Rotterdam and the Dutch East Indies until March 1918, when the United States seized her under angary and she became USS ''Ophir'' (ID-2800). In November 1918 a fire and explosion damaged her beyond economic repair. She was scrapped in 1922. Building Between 1903 and 1906 Koninklijke Maatschappij 'De Schelde' in Vlissingen built three sister ships for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. ''Ophir'' was built as yard number 112. She was laid down on 30 November 1903, launched on 27 August 1904, undertook her sea trials on 8 November, and was completed on 14 November. She was followed by ''Wilis'', launched in 1905, and ''Rindjani'', launched in 1906. ''Ophir''s registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . Her tonnages were , and . She had berths for 146 passengers: 60 first class, 32 second class, 24 third class, and 30 steerage. ''Ophir'' had a single screw, driven by a thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Zaanland
SS ''Zaanland'' was a Cargo ship, cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1900 for Netherlands, Dutch owners, and sunk in a collision in 1918. She was built for the Zuid-Amerika Lijn, which in 1908 became :nl:Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd, Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd. The US Government requisitioned her in March 1918 as USS ''Zaanland'', with the Naval Registry Identification Number ID–2746. She was sunk in a collision less than two months later. Building and identification In 1899 the Zuid-Amerika Line (ZAL) was founded to trade between the Netherlands and South America. It ordered three new sister ships from Lithgows, Russell & Co in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde. ''Amstelland'' was built as yard number 459, launched on 5 June 1900, and completed that July. ''Zaanland'' was yard number 460, launched on 7 September 1900, and completed on 12 October. ''Rijnland'' was yard number 461, launched on 24 October 1900, and completed on 3 December. Each ship was of the spar- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Hatteras (1917)
The second USS ''Hatteras'' was a Cunard Line freighter acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I and was used to transport men and war materials to France. Post-war she was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board as redundant to needs. Service history left, Probably photographed in 1919, after World War I Navy service as USS ''Hatteras'' (ID # 2142). The ship appears to be loaded, with worn paintwork and an empty gun platform forward The second U.S. Navy ship to be named ''Hatteras'' was built in 1917 for the Cunard Line by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Sparrows Point, Maryland. Acquired by the U.S. Navy for the war effort, she was commissioned on 23 October 1917. After loading cargo, mainly iron, in Maryland, ''Hatteras'' joined a convoy at Norfolk, Virginia, and sailed for France on 26 January 1918. On 4 February, the convoy ran into a severe North Atlantic Ocean storm, and ''Hatteras steering gear broke down completely. The disabled ship headed back to Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Edward Luckenbach (1916)
SS ''Edward Luckenbach'' was the first of five new cargo ships to be built for the Luckenbach Steamship Company by Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation. The ship was launched in September 1916, delivered in November and briefly operated as such before being requisitioned for World War I service. The ship was one of the cargo vessels in the first large convoy transporting U.S. Army forces to France. After that convoy the ship served as a U.S. Army Chartered Transport (USACT) until converted by the Army to a troop ship and turned over to the Navy a few months before the war's end. The Navy commissioned the ship as USS ''Edward Luckenbach'' assigning the miscellaneous identification number ID-1662 in August 1918. The transport made one wartime voyage with continued voyages returning the Army to the U.S. until August 1919. ''Edward Luckenbach'' was returned to the company before mid September, 1919, resuming commercial service, mainly between New York and San Francisco. The ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Atik
USS ''Atik'' (AK-101) was a Q-ship of the United States Navy named for ''al-Atik'', a double star in the constellation Perseus. Her twin sister ship was . History The steel-hulled, single-screw steamer ''Carolyn'' was laid down on 15 March 1912 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the A. H. Bull Steamship Lines; launched on 3 July 1912, sponsored by Ms. Carolyn Bull, a granddaughter of the shipping firm's owner, Archibald Hilton Bull (1847–1920), and delivered on 20 July 1912. For the next 30 years, ''Carolyn'' carried freight and passengers between the West Indies and ports on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. During World War I, she received a main battery of one and one gun, and a Navy armed guard detachment served on the ship from 28 June 1917–11 November 1918. During that time, the Navy gave her the identification Id. No. 1608, but did not take her over for naval service. ''Carolyn'' operated under the house flag of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
