The Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation is an award of the United States Merchant Marine. The award is presented as a bronze plaque to vessels, with...
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The Merchant Marine Mariner's Medal is a decoration of the United States Merchant Marine. Because the Merchant Marine was not considered a branch of the...
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States Coast Guard) Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation (United States Merchant Marine) National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation (United States Intelligence...
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Fire Fighter (fireboat) (category Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state))
SS Sea Witch, the Fire Fighter was named a Gallant Ship and her crew received the American Merchant Marine Seamanship Trophy. To date, Fire Fighter remains...
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The Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal is a decoration of the United States Merchant Marine. It is awarded to any seamen of any ship operated by...
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SS Stephen Hopkins (redirect from Paul Buck (United States Merchant Marine))
Stephen Hopkins was a United States Merchant Marine Liberty ship that served in World War II. She was the only US merchant vessel to sink a German surface...
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SS Meredith Victory (category World War II merchant ships of the United States)
The SS Meredith Victory was a United States Merchant Marine Victory ship, a type of cargo freighter built for World War II. Under the leadership of Captain...
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waterways of the globe. The focus is on merchant shipping, and the financing and manning of the ships. A merchant marine owned at home is not essential to an...
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Presidential Unit Citation and sometimes as the "Navy and Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation". The ribbon is worn by only by those Navy and Marine service...
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of the few World War II merchant ships to be awarded the Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation. Ensign Anderson was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
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SS Marcus Daly (category 1943 ships)
arriving on January 28, 1945. The ship's crew were awarded the Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation Ribbon. The Marcus Daly was scrapped at National City, California...
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A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's...
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Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (redirect from Way (ship))
mariners as "merchant marines", because merchant mariners are civilian sailors responsible for operating merchant ships and are not marines. Marines sometimes...
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United States Merchant Marine are civilian decorations of the United States which are issued to the members of the United States Merchant Marine for a variety...
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super-cargo merchant ships traveling to and from China. At the time of his nomination by (future U.S. President) John Adams to lead the Continental Marines in...
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HMS Jervis Bay (redirect from Jervis Bay (ship))
To-day is the anniversary of a very gallant naval deed, that of the action of H.M.S. Jervis Bay, in which the ship was lost with most hands, carrying out...
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United States Revenue Cutter Service (redirect from Revenue Marine)
After the Slave Trade Act of 1794 was enacted, the Revenue-Marine began intercepting slave ships which were illegally importing slaves into the United States...
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Vauquelin was born in February 1728 at Dieppe. He was the son of a merchant marine captain. Having taken the trade at an early age with his father, he...
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Red Sea crisis (redirect from Attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea in 2023)
targeted an American merchant ship named Koi with several naval missiles. The security firm Ambrey said the same day that a merchant vessel reported an...
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Holland America Line (redirect from Statendam-class cruise ship)
largest merchant fleet and its gallant crews, from 1940 to 1945 (2nd ed.). Rotterdam: Holland America Line. OCLC 604175934. Talbot-Booth, EC (1936). Ships and...
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Alice Clair – British merchant ship Benegal Star – tramp steamer Colonia – British merchant ship Dundee Castle – British merchant ship Queen of Olati – British...
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Brig (redirect from Brig (ship))
sloop Cruizer-class brig-sloop Gun-brig Snow (ship) MacGregor, David R (1984). Merchant Sailing Ships 1815-1850 Supremacy of Sail. London: Conway Maritime...
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Archibald Bisset Smith (category British Merchant Navy officers)
was described in an enemy account as "a duel as gallant as naval history can relate." As a Merchant officer, Smith could not receive the VC at that time...
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USS Starlight (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
United States Secretary of Transportation later awarded the Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation to Khian Star for efforts to assist the survivors of Badger...
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postwar into merchant service. To expedite production, the type was based on an existing design, later adapted to become the Liberty ship. Yards constructed...
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Kriegsmarine (redirect from Kriegs Marine)
forces can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly." A number of captured ships from occupied countries were added to the German fleet as...
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Gallant Schemer was launched in 1799 at Falmouth. A French privateer captured her in 1805, but she was back in British hands by 1808. She then traded...
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The United States merchant marine forces matured during the maritime history of the United States (1900–1999). In 1905, the Industrial Workers of the...
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25 March 1942 "Kvarstad Ships & Men". warsailors.com. Retrieved 7 September 2022. Jordan, Roger (1999). The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham...
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Babiole, after a brief exchange of gunfire, captured the British merchant corvette Gallant Schemer, Clement Worts, master, which had been sailing from Smyrna...
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