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Hope is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948. It is believed to be the last sail-powered oystering vessel built on the Long Island Sound. [1] Hope is 56 feet (17 m) long, including the bowsprit, and 42 feet 2 inches (12.9 m) at the waterline.
Hope (sloop) is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948. It is believed to be the last sail-powered oystering vessel built on the Long Island Sound. SS Hope was a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE. Hope was originally a US Navy hospital ship, USS Consolation. Consolation was donated to Project Hope in 1958, and under her new name served ...
In August 1795, merchant John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island conspired to trade in slaves with Captain Peleg Wood. [4] Hope was the ship to be used; however, the United States had recently limited participation in the international slave trade by Congressional action in 1794. By November Hope was engaged in the slave trade again. [4]
Most of the inhabitants fled to Bull Harbour on Hope Island. [5] The Nahwitti people called their new village on Hope Island "Meloopa". Many eventually relocated again to Alert Bay. The village site on Hope Island remains an Indian reserve called "Hope Island 1". [6] Near the original village, on Cape Sutil, is a reserve called "Nahwitti 4". [1]
USS Hope (AH-7) was a Comfort-class hospital ship launched under Maritime Commission contract by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California, 30 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Martha L. Floyd; acquired by the Navy the same day for conversion to a hospital ship by U.S. Naval Dry Dock, Terminal Island, Calif.; and commissioned 15 August 1944.
Hope was at Delagoa in April 1797 when the Dutch brig Haasje (aka Haas, or Hare) arrived from Batavia with arms for Dutch settlers seeking to resist the British occupation of the Cape Colony. Hope succeeded in capturing Haasje on 22 May and sending her into the Cape. Hope returned to the Cape on 23 October 1797. [6] She then disappears from ...
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USNS Pililaau (T-AKR 304) is the fifth Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship built by the Avondale Shipyards of New Orleans, Louisiana for the United States Navy. Pililaau is named after Private first class Herbert K. Pililaau, a Medal of Honor recipient.