United States Shipping Board (USSB) was established as an emergency agency by the 1916 Shipping Act (39 Stat. 729), on September 7, 1916. The United States...
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United States Lines was the trade name of an organization of the United States Shipping Board's (USSB) Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC), created to operate...
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established by the United States Shipping Board, sometimes referred to as the War Shipping Board, on 16 April 1917 pursuant to the Shipping Act (39 Stat. 729)...
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SS Vaterland (1913) (category World War I transports of the United States)
US government. The ship was placed under the control of the United States Shipping Board and in July 1917 to the Navy for completion of repairs and conversion...
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Hamburg America Line (category Shipping companies of Germany)
at times the world's largest, shipping company, serving the market created by German immigration to the United States and later, immigration from Eastern...
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and was abolished on May 24, 1950. The commission replaced the United States Shipping Board which had existed since World War I. It was intended to formulate...
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steamship Lake Farmingdale was steel-hulled freighter built for the United States Shipping Board in 1919. She spent most of her career in Southeast Asia as a...
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city in the San Francisco Bay Area SS Cotati, built for the United States Shipping Board in 1919 and sunk in 1942 as Empire Avocet Cotati (comics), a...
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may refer to: United States Maritime Commission was an agency of the U.S. federal government that replaced the United States Shipping Board in 1936, and...
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American shipping lines during a period when commercial shipping grew under the demands of the war. Under this act, the United States Shipping Board was also...
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shipping point" or "FCA shipping point". Some sources claim that FOB stands for "Freight On Board". This is not the case. The term "Freight On Board"...
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USSB might stand for: United States Satellite Broadcasting United States Shipping Board Upper Single-sideband (modulation) This disambiguation page lists...
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SS Cotopaxi (category Merchant ships of the United States)
Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program....
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in the United States Merchant Marine during World War I. American International Shipbuilding, subsidized by the United States Shipping Board, built an...
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USS Active (category United States Navy ship names)
USS Active (YT-112), a harbor tug acquired by the Navy from the United States Shipping Board on 20 April 1925. USCS Active USRC Active USCGC Active This article...
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formed in 1920 by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) to run the USSB's fleet of former German ocean liners that the United States had seized during World...
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The United States Federal Maritime Board was an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, responsible for certain aspects of merchant shipping between...
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Detroit Wayne (1919 ship) (category Ships of the United States Army)
steamship Detroit Wayne was steel-hulled freighter built for the United States Shipping Board in 1919. She carried freight across the Atlantic in 1920 and...
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p. 387. "War Paris". The Yard. Retrieved 24 February 2017. "Dunmail". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024. "Nasmyth"....
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"governmental" depending on the particular law at issue. In United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation v. Western Union Telegraph Co., the...
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II Interocean Shipping Company operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II Interocean Shipping Company was active...
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The United States Shipping Board was created in 1916. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 regulates maritime commerce and restricts cabotage. The Shipping Board...
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television series Slasher SS Waterbury, the original name of the 1919 United States Shipping Board cargo ship SS Empire Caribou Waterbury Clock Company, the original...
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USS Auburn (ID-3842) (category Cargo ships of the United States Navy)
cargo ship of the United States Shipping Board that was built in 1919 and scrapped in 1934. In 1919 she briefly served in the United States Navy. The Chester...
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SS City of Flint (1919) (category World War II merchant ships of the United States)
Philadelphia by American International Shipbuilding for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), Emergency Fleet Corporation. City of Flint was named...
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SS American Legion (category Passenger ships of the United States)
a United States Navy ship first launched on 11 October 1919 and decommissioned on 20 March 1946. She was built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB)...
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merged to create the United States Coast Guard under the Department of the Treasury in 1915, while the United States Shipping Board was established in 1916...
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Maritime Commission. Combined Shipping Adjustment Board United States Merchant Marine Victory ship World War II United States Merchant Navy Wikimedia Commons...
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USS Pocahontas (ID-3044) (category Transports of the United States Navy)
returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States. Decommissioned by the U.S. Navy, the United States Shipping Board sold her back to the North German Lloyd...
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USS Indianapolis (ID-3865) (category Cargo ships of the United States Navy)
and Jones, Gloucester City, Camden County, New Jersey, for the United States Shipping Board. She was delivered to the U.S. Department of the Navy on 12 December...
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