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MV Joyita was an American merchant vessel from which 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in October 1955. She was found adrift with no one aboard. The ship was in very poor condition, with corroded pipes and a radio which, while functional, had a range of only about 2 miles (3.2 km) because of faulty wiring.
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
Converted to passenger ship by Matson Line in 1955. SS Atlantic: 1953/1958 American Export Lines: Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., in Chester, Pennsylvania Scrapped 1996 Built as “Break Bulk Cargo Ship” for the “US Maritime Commission” in 1953 as the Badger Mariner. Converted to passenger ship by American Export Line in 1958. SS Santa ...
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft , which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships , which are used for military purposes.
City of New York (1885 ship) SS City of Peking; SS City of Tokio; City of Washington (ship) USNS Clarksburg; Cliffs Victory; SS Coast Trader; Cochan (sternwheeler) SS Cockaponset; USS Cockatoo (AMc-8) Cocopah I (Sternwheeler) Cocopah II (Sternwheeler) SS Cokesit; SS Col. James M. Schoonmaker; USNS Colonel William J. O'Brien; Colorado I ...
Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 American war film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Lloyd Bacon, and adapted by John Howard Lawson from a story by Guy Gilpatric. The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II. [2]
SS Merchant was an American iron–hulled passenger and package freighter in service between 1862 and 1875. The first iron–hulled merchant ship built on the Great Lakes , she was built in 1862 in Buffalo, New York , by the David Bell shipyard, out of components manufactured in Black Rock, New York , and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .
List of current U.S. flagged cruise ships and river boats in the United States. Due to the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 , these are the only overnight passenger ships currently eligible to sail solely between U.S. ports without the need for a foreign port stopover.