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Originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, completed instead as passenger ship. 1950s SS Independence: February 1951 American Export Lines: Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [26] Henry ...
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Dec 27, 1986 * No. 6 : vs. TCU All-College Tournament: L 82–95 7–2: Myriad Convention Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Jan 2, 1987 * No. 13 : Arkansas State Sooner Invitational: W 77–57 8–2: Lloyd Noble Center Norman, Oklahoma: Jan 3, 1987 * No. 13 : McNeese State Sooner Invitational: W 68–63 9–2: Lloyd Noble ...
An Iowa City local, Captain Frederick M. Irish was chosen to board the Ripple to help scout out any obstructions in the river and to figure out how to remove those obstructions. [1] The Ripple never returned to Iowa City. However, the steamboat Rock River traveled to Iowa City twice in 1842. Rock River was piloted by Captain Theyer and first ...
In 2004, a new Dell call center brought over 250 jobs, and plans to employ over 19,000 more jobs in the future. 2005 brought Oklahoma its first major league basketball franchise, the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, followed by becoming the permanent home of the renamed Seattle NBA franchise, now the Oklahoma City Thunder, in 2008. Many other ...
The passenger list, even if one was recorded, is not extant. Therefore, alternative sources have been used to reconstruct the list of passengers and crew. Confirmed: William Penn, [5] [6] Hannah Penn (second wife of William Penn) and Letitia Penn (daughter of William Penn by his first wife) [7] James Logan, [8] secretary to William Penn
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six , protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic.
Barbara Hillyer, founder and first director of the university's Women's Studies program, which was the first of its kind in Oklahoma [4] Leon Quincy Jackson (1926/1927–1995), architect, professor, early African-American architect in Oklahoma and Tennessee [5] Ori Kritz, Hebrew professor
With its first steamer, City of Glasgow of 1850, Inman led the drive to replace wood-hulled paddle steamers with iron-hulled screw-propelled ships. In 1852, Inman established that steerage passengers could be transported in steamships. Inman's City of Paris of 1866 was the first screw liner that could match the speed of the paddlers. By 1870 ...