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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 .
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 Dalton Victory: VC2-S-AP3 8 April 1944: 6 June 1944: 19 July 1944: Became USNS Dalton Victory (T-AK-256), a missile range instrumentation ship. 22 SS Gainesville Victory: VC2-S-AP3 11 April 1944: 9 June 1944: 22 July 1944: 23 SS Selma Victory: VC2-S-AP3 23 April 1944: 16 June 1944: 29 July 1944: 24
The tanker SS Selma is located northwest of the fishing pier at Seawolf Park in Galveston The ship was launched the same day Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles , ending the war, so it never saw wartime duty and instead was used as an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico .
Greatest maritime catastrophe in the history of Russian America. Loss of the largest Russian American ship, about 103 men, including passengers, Bishop Ioasaf, head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Alaska, and Captain James Shields. Financial loss of 622,328 rubles. This event greatly slowed the tempo of Russian colonization in America. [7]
Between 1879 and 1916, tens of thousands of Indians moved to Fiji to work as indentured labourers, especially on sugarcane plantations. Repatriation of indentured Indians from Fiji began on 3 May 1892, when the British Peer brought 464 repatriated Indians to Calcutta.
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida , and later as Selma . She was captured by the Union Navy steamer USS Metacomet during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.