• launched in 1942. SS George Calvert was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after George Calvert, an English...
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  • TS, USAS, USAF, USNS. SS George Calvert (1942), Maritime Commission hull number 29, launched in 1942 and sunk off Cuba in 1942 by the German submarine U-753...
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    SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant...
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  • Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing. p. 550. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "SS Botavon (+1942)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 16 October 2013. Jordan, Roger (1999)....
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    type C4-class ships. The new ships were the SS SS Angelina and the SS Manuela (both were sunk by Uboat in 1942). World War II ended all Bull passenger services...
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  • 2004-05-04. "Ss Stephen Hopkins | Marad". "Ss Stephen Hopkins | Marad". usmmasports.com Stephen Hopkins usmm.org Heroes, Paul Buck usmm.org Heroes, George S. Cronk...
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    the testing phase in 1964. Laid down in 1941 as the Liberty ship SS George Calvert (MC #20), she first saw service as the United States Coast Guard training...
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  • SS John Mitchell was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John Mitchell, an American labor leader and president...
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    James Francis Calvert (September 8, 1920 – June 3, 2009) served in the United States Navy, where he commanded USS Skate, the third nuclear submarine commissioned...
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    Battle of the Caribbean (category 1942 in the Caribbean)
    several elements. SS George Calvert, a one-gun Liberty ship, was sailing off eastern Cuba when she was sunk by U-753 on 20 May 1942. Ten men were killed...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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  • first African-American recruits.[dubious – discuss] The Liberty ship George Calvert was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba by German submarine...
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    USS Mackerel (SS-204), the lead ship of her class of submarines, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for the mackerel. Mackerel and her...
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  • by a Japanese submarine." "Wrecksite Grantleyhall SS (1927~1931) Angarstroi SS (Angarstroy) (+1942)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 17 April 2020. "Lloyd's...
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    attack on SS Las Choapas, a tanker sunk by U-129 on 27 June 1942, and the fourth Mexican tanker sunk by German submarines. On 20 May 1942 a second tanker...
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    Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed. Completed in early 1942, the ship supported the invasion forces in Operation MO, the invasion of...
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    USS Sims (DD-409) (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    sailed as part of a convoy taking Marines to Samoa, arriving on 23 January 1942. At the time, it was believed that the Japanese would attack Samoa to sever...
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  • SS George Wythe was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Founding Father George Wythe, the first American...
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    USS Neosho (AO-23) (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    to keep afloat until rendezvousing with an American destroyer on 11 May 1942. The destroyer rescued the crew and sank the vessel. She was laid down under...
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  • Mexican tanker SS Potrero del Llano on 14 May by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 contributed to Mexico's declaration of war on Germany on 1 June 1942. "SS Barneson...
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  • SS Henry St. George Tucker was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Henry St. George Tucker, a Virginia jurist...
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    SS Dumaru was a Design 1003, Hough-type wooden steam ship launched on April 17, 1918, in Portland, Oregon, as part of the United States Shipping Board...
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    33 crew, and could also accommodate 8-10 passengers. On about 1 May 1942, the SS Alcoa Puritan sailed from Port of Spain, Trinidad, alone and unarmed...
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    ORP Jastrząb (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    originally of the United States Navy, in Polish service between 1941 and 1942, when she was lost to friendly fire. She was laid down in October 1918 as...
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  • service SS Attleboro Victory SS Baton Rouge Victory SS Baylor Victory SS Colombia Victory SS Berea Victory SS Cuba Victory SS Enid Victory SS Frontenac...
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    USS R-18 (redirect from SS-95)
    USS R-18 (SS-95) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. R-18′s keel was laid down on 16 June 1917 by the Union...
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  • through Je. "Photograph of Mrs. I. M. Aiken christening the Liberty ship 'George W. Crawford', J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia...
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    HMS Trinidad (46) (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged escorting PQ 13 in 1942. Trinidad was built by HM Dockyard Devonport. She was laid down on 21 April...
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    USS S-25 (redirect from SS-130)
    USS S-25 (SS-130) was a first-group (S-1 or "Holland") S-class submarine of the United States Navy. S-25 was laid down on 26 October 1918 by the Fore River...
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    USS Lexington (CV-2) (category Maritime incidents in May 1942)
    and the mission was canceled. A planned attack on Wake Island in January 1942 had to be canceled when a submarine sank the oiler required to supply the...
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