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2. File:Tampa Florida Map 1912-1918 Board of Trade Poster.jpg

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   English: A map of the city Tampa in Florida, 1918. It was the nearest adequate port in America to the Panama Canal. The map shows a birds eye view of the city and a general outline of rail and water facilities, harbor developments and 24-foot channels completed in 1917. The Port of Tampa has wooden and steel steamships.

3. McCloskey & Company Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   During World War II, there was a high demand for ships thus, McCloskey & Company opened a shipyard at Hookers Point in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Port Authority leased the land to McCloskey & Company. With steel in short supply due to the war, McCloskey & Company built 24 self-propelled concrete ships under a Maritime Commission war contract ...

4. Jean Street Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Jean Street Shipyard (established 1843) is a shipyard in the United States, located on the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida. It is located approximately 5 miles from the mouth of the Hillsborough River , about 1 mile above the Hillsborough Avenue bridge in what is now the neighborhood of Seminole Heights .

5. Tampa Shipbuilding Company - Wikipedia

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   Originally Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, founded in 1917, the yard built ships under the United States Maritime Commission's pre-war long-range shipbuilding program. It was also called the Tampa Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company. It would use the facilities of the Tampa Foundry & Machine Co. Tampa Foundry that ceased to exist in 1916.

6. American Ship Building Company - Wikipedia

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   USNS Paul Buck (T-AOT-1122), launched in 1985, Tampa Shipyards (subsidiary of The American Ship Building Company) MV Roger Blough, built in Lorain in 1972. MV Kaye E. Barker, originally SS Edward B. Greene, built in Lorain in 1952. MV James R. Barker, built in Lorain in 1976. MV Mesabi Miner, built in Lorain in 1977.

7. History of Tampa, Florida - Wikipedia

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   The Tampa Municipal Hospital did not admit black patients until the 1950s. In 1922, Garfield Devoe Rogers Sr. helped start the Central Life Insurance Company, which sold policies to blacks. In 1938, Blanche Armwood became the first black woman in Florida to graduate from an accredited law school. Black Cuban Francisco Rodriguez became a lawyer ...