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USAHS Marigold was a United States Army hospital ship during World War II. The ship was built as Old North State in 1920 for the United States Shipping Board as a civilian passenger/cargo liner. The ship changed ownership and operating companies several times with name changes to President Van Buren and President Fillmore before being acquired ...
USS Marigold was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat, dispatch boat and also as a gunboat in the blockade of the Confederacy. Marigold, a screw tug built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was purchased by the Navy at Philadelphia 13 June 1863 and commissioned there the ...
Marigold served in a number of the theatres of the Second World War. [9] [10] On 7 May 1941, Marigold, a member of the 7th Escort Group, was part of the escort for the westbound Atlantic convoy Convoy OB 318. That night, the convoy was attacked by the German submarine U-94 200 miles (320 km) south west of Reykjavík, Iceland.
USS Marigold (1863), a ship used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War USAHS Marigold , a United States Army hospital ship during World War II USLHT Marigold , a 1890 lighthouse tender which served on the Great Lakes
For ships with unique names, "USS Shipname" redirects to the ship article. For reused names, ... USS Marigold (1863, WAGL-235) USS ...
HMS Marigold (1673), a 4-gun fireship purchased in 1673 and lost in action in August of that year; HMS Marigold (1677), a 44-gun fourth rate captured from Algeria in 1677 and wrecked 1679; HMS Marigold (1915), an Acacia-class sloop launched in 1915 and sold 1920; HMS Marigold (K87), a Flower-class corvette launched in 1940 and sunk December 1942
These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63).
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 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...