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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.
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. [1]
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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The Lorain, Ohio Yard served as the main facility of the company after World War II and to this day five of the 13 separate 1,000 ft (300 m) ore carriers on the Great Lakes were built in Lorain, including the M/V Paul R. Tregurtha which is the largest vessel on the Great Lakes (1,013'06" long). Built in 1898, the Lorain Yard quickly grew in ...
“The ship owner has a duty to exercise due diligence to ensure the seaworthiness of the ship,” Brennan added. “If they don't do that, they're not going to recover either.” This story was ...
The Dali is owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and managed by the Singapore-based Synergy Marine Group. Synergy spokesman Darrell Wilson said the pilots guide the company's ships in and out and ...
U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II; Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945; HISTORIC SHIPS TO VISIT - LISTED BY TYPE OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE; NavSource Naval History; Summary of Vessels Built in WWII, by Type; Comparison of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Vessels in World War II; Army Ships—The Ghost Fleet; History of US Army T Boats; Hero Ships: LST