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MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered ocean liner built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was named after the city of St. Louis , Missouri. She was the sister ship of Milwaukee .
SS St. Louis was a passenger liner built in 1894 and sponsored by the wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. She entered merchant service in 1895, operating between New York and Southampton, England. St. Louis was registered in the United States and owned by the International Navigation Company of New York City.
The most infamous example of Canada's immigration policy was the refusal to admit the MS St. Louis, a German ocean liner carrying refugees. [2] Only 5,000 Jewish refugees entered Canada from 1933 until 1945, which the book argues was the worst of any refugee receiving nation in the world. [2]
Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from Tennessee and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during most of World War II.
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SS St. Louis (1944), an 18,362-gross register ton container ship of Sea-Land Service active until 1988; an enlarged and rebuilt ship created from the former USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148), a World War II transport ship of the United States Navy
USS St. Louis, a troop transport in commission in 1898, which otherwise served as the civilian passenger liner SS St. Louis (1894) from 1895 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1920 and was in commission again as the troop transport USS Louisville from 1918 to 1919; USS St. Louis (C-20), a protected cruiser in commission from 1906 to 1922
During his stint as ambassador to Cuba, the SS St. Louis with its cargo of mostly German Jewish refugees tried to land in Havana in 1939. This incident was the basis for the 1976 film Voyage of the Damned. Wright died at his post in Havana on December 4, 1939, after an operation. [7]