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(state flagship and tall ship ambassador) 2003 [3] Delaware: Kalmar Nyckel (state tall ship) 2016 [4] Massachusetts: Schooner Ernestina (vessel of the commonwealth) 1994 [5] Maryland: Skipjack (state boat) 1985 [6] Maine: Bowdoin (state sailing vessel) 1987 [7] [8] New Jersey: A. J. Meerwald (state tall ship) 1998 [9] [10] North Carolina: Shad ...
- sec. 1531 (Title Thirteen, Chapter Six, of the U.S. Code) A large majority of the ships named for states are battleships (BB), followed by submarines (SSN, SSBN & SSGN). The remainder are cruisers (ACR & CGN), monitors (BM) and patrol craft (SP) and an amphibious transport dock (LPD).
Governor R. M. McLane, was a steamboat built in 1884 that served the state of Maryland as an enforcement and survey vessel.. Maryland's State Oyster Police Force (“Oyster Navy”) was established to enforce state conservation laws designed to protect Maryland's oyster resources when out of state, often New England, dredgers began destroying reefs.
The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide ...
Painting by Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896, depicting the burning of Peggy Stewart. Peggy Stewart was a Maryland cargo vessel burned on October 19, 1774, in Annapolis as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British occupation of Boston following the Boston Tea Party.
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Mary and John was a 400-ton ship that is known to have sailed between England and the American colonies four times from 1607 to 1634. Named in tribute to John and Mary Winthrop [2] she was captained by Robert Davies and owned by Roger Ludlow (1590–1664), one of the assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [3]
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