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    SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty ship launched. It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore...
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    Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention...
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  • gunboat during the American Civil War SS Patrick Henry, the first World War II Liberty ship launched USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), a ballistic missile submarine...
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    first of these was SS Patrick Henry, launched by President Roosevelt. In remarks at the launch ceremony FDR cited Patrick Henry's 1775 speech that finished...
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  • Sarah Shelton (1738–1775), was the first wife of Founding Father Patrick Henry, the first Governor of Virginia. Shelton was born and raised in her family's...
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    rights movement. Ogden was born in the West Indies and served on the S.S. Patrick Henry as a ship steward. Not much is known about Peter Ogden's early life...
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  • Father Patrick Henry, who is known for his famous "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech. Hartless, Eva C. (1977), Sarah Winston Syme Henry, Boston:...
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    Liberty ship SS Patrick Henry at Bethlehem Steel's Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore. Also launched the same day were the Liberty SS James McKay...
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    Shipbuilding program. Among the ships launched was the first Liberty ship, SS Patrick Henry. Some of the merchant ships were subsequently converted to other purposes...
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    Give me liberty or give me death! (category Patrick Henry)
    orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry is credited...
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    group SS Oliver Ellsworth 1942  United States 7,191 Sunk by U-408 1 casualty SS Oregonian 1917  United States 4,862 Sunk in air attack SS Patrick Henry 1941...
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    shipping in American waters. 27 September: The first "Liberty Ship", the SS Patrick Henry is launched. Liberty Ships will prove to be major parts of the Allied...
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  • Sarah Winston Syme Henry, the mother of Patrick Henry, was a woman who educated her son and worked for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. Sarah...
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  • is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader. 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. 1942...
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  • is appointed its first acting leader. The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore. September 28 – WWII: The Drama Uprising...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...
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  • condemnation of Lindbergh follows. September 27 – The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore. September 29 – World War II: The first Moscow...
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    gunners wounded one man and hit several aircraft carried on the deck of Patrick Henry. No more torpedo attacks were made on the convoy and soon after, Soviet...
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    freighter could safely proceed to her destination. In February 1925 when SS Patrick Henry went aground on shoals off Wada, Wheatland Montana came to her aid...
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    Liberty Fleet Day, with the launching of their first Liberty Ship, SS Patrick Henry. She was the first of an eventual 384 Liberty ships built there, along...
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    mariners killed in 1942. SS E. A. Bryan had a munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, at Port Chicago, California. SS Patrick Henry was built in 4 days, 15...
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    Daniel Patrick Brown, The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System, p. 77 While SS-Oberaufseherin...
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    across the James River. The famed American patriot and statesman, Patrick Henry, rented the house during two of his terms as governor of Virginia from...
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  • children westward to Kentucky. Her brother was Patrick Henry, the governor of Virginia. Her sister, Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell, was a Methodist lay leader...
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  • Administration. Retrieved 1 July 2019. Gregory, Mackenzie J. (2014). "Liberty Ship SS Roger B. Taney". Ahoy - Mac's Web Log. Retrieved 11 November 2019. Some crew...
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  • 5,887   SS Meanticut  United States 6,061   SS Nathanael Greene  United States 7,177   SS Ocean Faith  United Kingdom 7,174   SS Patrick Henry  United...
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    CSS Patrick Henry was a ship built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer...
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  • SS Patrick B. Whalen was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Patrick B. Whalen, who was lost at sea while...
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  • SS John Henry was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John Henry, the eighth Governor of Maryland and member...
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    The Patrick Henry (packet) was a three-masted, square-rigged, merchant-class, sailing packet ship that transported mail, newspapers, merchandise and thousands...
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