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Subcategories. This category has the following 30 subcategories, out of 30 total. World War I merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 46 P) World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 293 P) Vietnam War merchant ships of the United States (2 P)
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] 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 ...
Alaska Maritime Agencies. American Black Sea Line. American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier. American Shipping Company. American Steamship Company. Anchor Line (riverboat company) Atlantic Container Line. Atlantic Fruit Company. Atlantic Transport Line.
To USCG as American Mariner, to US Army in 1958 as a missile range ship, to U.S. Navy 1961 as AGM-12, sunk as target 1966 SS Amerigo Vespucci: Amerigo Vespucci: 2767 standard 20 February 1944: 10 March 1944: Scrapped 1962 SS Am-Mer-Mar: American Merchant Marine: 2808 standard 3 August 1944: 14 September 1944: Wrecked 1946, scrapped 1948 SS Ammla
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from six-metre (20 ft) inflatable dive ...
The 18th century. As British colonists before 1776, American merchant vessels had enjoyed the protection of the Royal Navy. Major ports in the Northeast began to specialize in merchant shipping. The main cargoes included tobacco, as well as rice, indigo and naval stores from the Southern colonies.
List of merchant navy capacity by country. List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both gross tonnage (GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state. The table is based on the annual maritime shipping statistics provided by the British Government and the ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 90 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...