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Pages in category "Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Maid of Iowa was a steamboat first owned and captained by Dan Jones. It was first launched in 1842, and was used as a passenger ship on the Mississippi River . The boat is best known for transporting British Mormon converts to settle in Nauvoo, Illinois .
Pages in category "Passenger ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, completed instead as passenger ship. 1950s SS Independence: February 1951 American Export Lines: Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [26] Henry ...
A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters [definition needed] once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight.
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
The next morning, the citizens had a meeting at a hotel and invited steamboat captain D. Jones, his crew, and his passengers to a dinner that was given in their honor. An Iowa City local, Captain Frederick M. Irish was chosen to board the Ripple to help scout out any obstructions in the river and to figure out how to remove those obstructions. [1]
Several U.S. Navy ships were named USS Iowa, beginning in 1864. A stern-wheel rafter/packet named Iowa plied the Mississippi 1865–1900. [4] A stern-wheel towboat named Iowa operated in the Mississippi 1921–1954; a contemporaneous dredge named Iowa also existed 1932–1956. [5] An ocean-going steamer named Iowa was in use in the late 19th ...