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SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978.The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s.
St. Louis left Hamburg on March 28, 1929, for her maiden voyage to New York City, and was then mainly used in the North Atlantic service from Hamburg to Halifax, and then to New York. She also made cruises of 16–17 days each to the Canary Islands , Madeira and Morocco , especially in autumn and spring.
On June 8, 1845, John W. Avery of John W. Avery & Co., 309 Water Street, put an ad in the New York Daily Herald to sale the fast sailing pilot boat Charlotte Ann. She was 50-tons burthen. [ 132 ] One of the last reports of the Charlotte Ann was on February 9, 1849, when she helped tow the brig Cobden, Cornish, Hamburg, in heavy weather to the city.
In December 2020, Association Pilotes Volontaires [74] began operation of their Dyn'Aéro MCR4S reconnaissance aircraft named Colibri 2. [26] Their original Colibri, of the same make, flew its first mission in May 2018. [75] As of June 2019, they had logged 52 missions, sighting 54 boats and by their estimates saving more than 4,300 people. [75]
This fleet and the Army's Ports of Embarkation [2] [3] [4] operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings.
Plan and profile drawing of St. Louis in the camouflage scheme applied to the ship in 1944. As the major naval powers negotiated the London Naval Treaty in 1930, which contained a provision limiting the construction of heavy cruisers armed with 8-inch (203 mm) guns, United States naval designers came to the conclusion that with a displacement limited to 10,000 long tons (10,160 t), a better ...
A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...
The basic idea of a mother ship is that it can carry small fishing boats that return to the mother ship with their catch. But the idea extends to include factory trawlers supporting a fleet of smaller catching vessels that are not carried on board. They serve as the main ship in a fleet operating in waters a great distance from their home ports.