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SS. Ohio. (1940) SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco ). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War.
SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.
SS Norisle is a museum ship berthed permanently at the Manitowaning Heritage Complex. It is one of three surviving ships, the others being Norgoma and Normac. It was built in 1946, the first ship built in post-World War II Canada using engines intended for a Royal Canadian destroyer. Norisle ran until 1974, when it was replaced by MS Chi-Cheemaun.
8,090. Launched by Harland and Wolff in 1910 for White Star, serves cargo New Zealand routes jointly with Shaw, Savill and Albion Line, used as troop carrier in WWI. Sold to Aberdeen Line in 1926 under Mamilius. Sold back to SS&A in 1932 under Mamari, renamed ' Mamari III in 1934 serving Australian routes.
Francis Alonzo Dales (December 3, 1923 – March 29, 2003) was a cadet midshipman in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy who served on the freighter SS Santa Elisa, and subsequently the tanker SS Ohio, during Operation Pedestal, a convoy to the besieged island of Malta in the Second World War. For his actions defending the convoy, considered one ...
10,250 tons. The SS St. Marys Challenger is a freight-carrying vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906. Originally an ore boat, she spent most of her career as a cement carrier when much larger ore boats became common. After a 107-year-long working career as a self-propelled boat, she was converted into a barge and ...
The United States Merchant Marine is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States.
SS Ohio may also refer to the following ships: SS Ohio (1869), a Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger liner launched in 1869 by Caird & Company [1] SS Ohio (1872), a passenger steamer launched in 1872 by William Cramp & Sons. SS Ohio (1875), a lake freighter launched in 1875 by John F. Squires. SS Ohio (1920), a Royal Mail Line steamer, later White ...