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unusual facts about Bayfield-class attack transport


Bayfield-class attack transport

Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002): Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California, the Company, the Yard, the Ships, Glencannon Press (for Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library), ISBN 1-889901-28-8.


Bayfield group

The Bayfield group is a quartz sandstone found in Wisconsin along the Lake Superior coast.

Bayfield, Colorado

Bayfield is a Statutory Town in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Crescent City-class attack transport

Subsequently, the ships were decommissioned one by one, from 1968 to 1977, but Crescent City was given a new lease of life as a training ship for the California Maritime Academy from 1971 to 1995.

Fran's Restaurant

Following the opening of the Victoria and Shuter location, Fran's expanded to Barrie, Ontario, opening a restaurant on Bayfield Street in December 2006.

Gilliam-class attack transport

All 32 vessels of the class were built under MARCOM contracts by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Wilmington, California.

Harris-class attack transport

Commissioned relatively early in the war, the Harris class ships saw action in all the major theatres of war, including the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific Theatres.

At that time, the US Shipping Board was set up to modernize America's merchant cargo fleet, and to provide ships suitable for service as naval auxiliaries.

Accordingly, a dozen of the Dollar class vessels were purchased by the War Department and converted into troop transports for service with the US Army, which named most of them after distinguished Army leaders.

Heywood-class attack transport

As the Navy no longer had use for them, they remained idle in the hands of the USSB through the 1920s, but around 1930 they were purchased by the Baltimore Steamship Company and substantially modified into passenger/cargo vessels according to a Gibbs & Cox design.

St Catherine Sport and Social Club

The club competes in the Barbados Cricket Association Division 1 championship with its home ground at Bayfield, Saint Philip.

Sumter-class attack transport

All four ships were struck from the Naval Register shortly after the war in March/April 1946, and all four went on to have successful careers as commercial cargo vessels.

Trans-Colorado Airlines

Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286: A Fairchild Metroliner III crashed near Bayfield, Colorado on approach to Durango on January 19, 1988, operated under the Continental Express brand.


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