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SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel. She lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.
SS Selma was a 1,629-ton cargo ship launched as the Cassiopeia on 2 November 1906, by Nylands Verksted in Oslo, Norway. Renamed Selma in 1915. Mined and sunk off North Foreland on 25 October 1915. [3] SS Selma was a 6,287-ton concrete-constructed tanker built for the US government and completed in January 1920, by Ley in Mobile, USA.
SS Del Norte; SS Del Sud; SS Del Mar; SS Delorleans, in World War 2. SS Delmundo, a 1919 cargo ship torpedoed in 1942 by U-600 and sank off Cuba, eight crew were killed. [5] SS Delbrasil; SS Delorleans; SS Deltargentino; SS Del Uruguay, taken over by the US Navy during construction, became USS Charles Carroll in 1942; SS Delvalle, sunk by U-154 ...
During the late 19th century, there were concrete river barges in Europe, and during both World War I and World War II, steel shortages led the US military to order the construction of small fleets of ocean-going concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma. [2] United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for concrete ...
U.S. Mail Steamship's Ohio and Georgia View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, at Aspinwall, N.G.. U.S. Mail Steamship Company was a company formed in 1848 by George Law, Marshall Owen Roberts and Bowes R. McIlvaine to assume the contract to carry the U. S. mails from New York City, with stops in New Orleans and Havana, to the Isthmus of Panama for delivery in California.
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This year marks the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." On March seventh, 1965, a group of peaceful marchers planned to make their way from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to protest voting ...
The SS Alhambra Victory and others were run by its American Mail Line crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio. The most common armament mounted on these merchant ships were the MK II 20mm Oerlikon autocannon and the 3"/50 , 4"/50 , and 5"/38 deck guns.