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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Merchant ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 439 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey Scrapped 1948 Originally built as a Harris-class attack transport towards the end of World War I, as Peninsula State, entered commercial service after her completion. SS Coamo: 1925 New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia
City of New York was designed in the late 1920s and constructed in 1930 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her keel was laid on March 12, 1929, as yard number 116. She slid down the slipways on October 19 of that same year. City of New York was completed on January 30, 1930, and she took her maiden voyage that February.
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.
SS St. Louis was a passenger liner built in 1894 and sponsored by the wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. She entered merchant service in 1895, operating between New York and Southampton, England. St. Louis was registered in the United States and owned by the International Navigation Company of New York City.
As an academic subject, it crosses the boundaries of standard disciplines, focusing on understanding the United States' relationship with the oceans, seas, and major waterways of the globe. The focus is on merchant shipping, and the financing and manning of the ships. A merchant marine owned at home is not essential to an extensive foreign ...