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A World War I poster for the US Shipping Board, ca. 1917–18.. The Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) was established by the United States Shipping Board, sometimes referred to as the War Shipping Board, on 16 April 1917 [1] pursuant to the Shipping Act (39 Stat. 729) to acquire, maintain, and operate merchant ships to meet national defense, foreign and domestic commerce during World War I.
1 January 1941 Scuttled as a "Gooseberry" breakwater 6 June 1944 Cristoforo Colombo Regia Marina: Francesco Caracciolo: super-dreadnought: 31,400 Laid down 14 March 1915, dismantled on the slipway post-war Dante Alighieri: dreadnought: 19,552 15 January 1913 1 July 1928 Scrapped 1928 Danton French Navy: Danton: semi-dreadnought: 18,754 1 June ...
The U.S. Navy in World War I. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-275-96212-8. OCLC 40595325. Gleaves, Albert (1921). A history of the transport service: adventures and experiences of United States transports and cruisers in the World War. New York: George H. Doran Company. Johnson, Robert Irwin (1987).
Pages in category "World War I naval ships" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The German commerce raiders of World War I were surface vessels used by the Imperial German Navy for its Handelskrieg ("Trade war"), a campaign against Allied seaborne trade. The ships comprised warships, principally cruisers, stationed in the German colonial empire before the war began, express liners commissioned as auxiliary cruisers and ...
Pages in category "World War I ships" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. SS Ardmore (1909) N.
"Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War". 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.