owned Faros Shipping, of London who renamed it Alkimos, after a word meaning "strong" and a Greek god, Álkimos. The ship operated under the flag of Panama...
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SS Dia was a 2,905 GRT cargo ship which was built as Empire Beaconsfield in 1943. She was owned by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and managed by...
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USS Barbero (redirect from SS-317)
USS Barbero (SS/SSA/SSG-317) was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for a family of fishes commonly called surgeon fish. Barbero...
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USS Sea Devil (SS/AGSS-400), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea devil (Manta birostria), the...
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The SS U.S.S.R. Victory was the third Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the California...
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USS Queenfish (SS/AGSS-393), was a Balao-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small food fish found...
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Mparmpa Petros was a 7,067 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1943 as Empire Crown by John Readhead & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, County Durham. She spent much...
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USAT Liberty (redirect from SS Liberty (1918 Federal))
Segovia, America, President Roosevelt, and President Jefferson. (see ref #4) SS Liberty Glo was a Hog Islander built at the end of World War I, but survived...
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Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2022. "SS Andrios (+1926)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 29 April 2012. "World Aircraft Carrier...
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USS Seekonk (category 1943 ships)
warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations. Seekonk was built in 1943 as Summit Springe (MC hull 902) under a Maritime Commission contract by the...
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sinking with 130 personnel in 1942, USS Argonaut, lost with 102 aboard in 1943, and Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000. Created to find and...
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SS Dolly Madison was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Dolley Madison, the wife of James Madison, President...
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03333 (Alice) Alkimos Greece May 1964 Greek merchant ship. 31°36′38″S 115°39′13″E / 31.61056°S 115.65361°E / -31.61056; 115.65361 (Alkimos (ship)) Arpenteur...
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Reader's Digest: 64–68. Goossens, Reuben. "MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt". ssMaritime. – history and pictures "Lakonia The Facts". IMDb. – Granada Television...
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HMCS Drummondville (redirect from SS Fort Albany)
registered in Halifax. The minesweeper was converted in 1960 to the merchant ship SS Fort Albany of 617 GRT and served as such until she was sunk in a collision...
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forced to return to Kronstadt, escorted by two minesweepers and the transport SS Andrey Zhandov. She was repaired in Leningrad where she resumed providing...
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