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unusual facts about Merchant Marine



Emory S. Land

Admiral Land was also instrumental in overseeing the establishment of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, located in Kings Point, New York as a commissioning source for officers entering the Merchant Marine and Naval Reserve in World War II.

Harris-class attack transport

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.

Inger!

Inger Krogh was a Norwegian exchange student coming to America after World War II, and this account begins when James Sites (a merchant mariner for the US at the time) first meets her at sea following a shipwreck.

Jimmy Haslip

His father, Jaime Haslip served in the United States Customs Service, beginning as a Merchant Marine until moving to patrolman and eventually deputy commissioner.

Patrick Cloutier

He now lives in a cabin in his native village of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis in Gaspésie, working in the merchant marine, leaving regularly for trips of several months aboard ships.

Postage stamps and postal history of Norway

While the new collaborationist government in Norway issued its own stamps, the government-in-exile, based in London, issued stamps for the use of the Royal Norwegian Navy and the merchant marine.

Robert P. Dean

Robert P. Dean (1909–1984) was a farmer, Merchant Marine, and Democratic politician born in Ridgely, Maryland, in Caroline County.

The Sun Won't Set

Susan also shares with Mike the fact that she is writing an autobiography based on her life and about her father who was a merchant marine who was murdered in Hanoi during the 1960s.


see also

1904 Republican National Convention

The 1904 Republican platform favored the protective tariff, increased foreign trade, the gold standard, expansion of the Merchant Marine and strengthening of the United States Navy; it also praised Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies.

AAFMAA

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), United States Military Academy (USMA), United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen and cadets

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), United States Military Academy (USMA), United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipment and cadets

Andrzej Wawrzyniak

At the age of sixteen he boarded the full-rigged school ship “Dar Pomorza”, then sailed on twelve ships, moving up from being a deck boy to the rank of officer of the Polish Merchant Marine.

DIIA

Pages cover how the merchant marine link to the military for logistics with such organisations as the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) and United States Military Sealift Command (MSC).

Fort Trumbull

One of the Merchant Marine officers trained at Fort Trumbull was actor Jack Lord who is best known for playing Steve McGarrett on the popular TV series Hawaii Five-O in the 1960s and 70s.

German submarine U-873

Friedrich Steinhoff was born in Küllstedt on 14 July 1909 and was a merchant marine officer prior to joining Kriegsmarine crew 34.

Haskell Wexler

He won a second Oscar for Bound for Glory (1976), a biography of Woody Guthrie (whom Wexler had met during his time in the Merchant Marine).

Herbert Covington Bonner

During the 79th Congress, he chaired the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress, and in the 84th through 89th Congresses, he chaired the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Joseph Sewall

He was also appointed by President George H.W. Bush to be a U.S. Commissioner of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Joint Commission and a Member of the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense by President Reagan and re-appointments by President G.H.W. Bush.

Larry Ching

Visiting the Chinese Village, a bar in Chinatown, at age 17 with his Merchant Marine friends, he convinced the pianist to play while he sang.

MT Timofey Guzhenko

The ship is named after Timofey Guzhenko (1918–2008), the USSR Minister of Merchant Marine in 1970–1986 and one of the founders of the Sovcomflot Group.

Pee Wee Hunt

Pee Wee Hunt was the co-founder and featured trombonist with the Casa Loma Orchestra, but he left the group in 1943 to work as a Hollywood radio disc jockey before joining the Merchant Marine near the end of World War II.

SS Henry Bacon

For his sacrifice, Chief Engineer Haviland was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award for the men of the Merchant Marine.

The Holocaust in Norway

Though the most significant contribution of the Allied war effort was through the merchant marine fleet known as Nortraship, a number of Norwegian military forces were established and became part of Utefronten.

United States Maritime Service

At the request of Congress, the chairman of the Maritime Commission, VADM Emory S. Land worked with ADM Russell R. Waesche, Commandant of the Coast Guard, to formulate a training program for merchant-marine personnel.

Wallace H. White, Jr.

In Congress, White served as chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (66th Congress), the House Committee on Woman Suffrage (67th through 69th Congresses), the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (70th and 71st Congresses), and the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (80th Congress).

William Henry Bragg

Bragg was born at Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, the son of Robert John Bragg, a merchant marine officer and farmer, and his wife Mary née Wood, a clergyman's daughter.

William S. Greene

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy for the Fifty-eighth Congress, and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Xabier Elorriaga

His exiled parents returned to Bilbao in Spain, in 1969 where he commenced studying Law, Engineering and the Merchant Marine but soon switched to the theatre, becoming well known as an actor in the Bilbao of the 1970s.