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USS Crux (AK-115) was a Crater-class cargo ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, commissioned by the US Navy for service in World War II.She was first named after Peter Stuyvesant, a Dutch politician that served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664.
The Peter Stuyvesant Monument by J. Massey Rhind situated at Bergen Square in Jersey City was dedicated in 1915 to mark the 250th anniversary of the Dutch settlement there [59] [60] [61] The World War II Liberty Ship SS Peter Stuyvesant was named in his honor.
Governor Pieter Stuyvesant of Curaçao sent five large Dutch ships, a pink, and two tenders on a campaign to reconquer the former WIC base of Sint Maarten.After pausing at Saint Kitts to recruit English and French volunteers, he arrived off the eastern shores of Sint Maarten at dawn on 20 March, accompanied by a half-dozen merchantmen that continued further north; Stuyvesant's squadron veered ...
[1] [2] In 1968, Athanas bought a 1927 former Hudson River cruise ship, the SS Peter Stuyvesant, and brought it from New York to Boston, where a specially built concrete and steel cradle held it in place adjacent to the restaurant; it served as a private bar and dining room and held a wine cellar as well as art works and mementoes collected by ...
SS Peter Skene Ogden: Peter Skene Ogden: 595 standard 18 October 1942: 14 November 1942: Torpedoed off Algeria 1944, scrapped SS Peter Stuyvesant: Peter Stuyvesant: 1212 standard 27 September 1943: 16 November 1943: To U.S. Navy as Crux (AK-115), scrapped 1962 SS Peter Trimble Rowe: Peter Trimble Rowe: 2181 standard 16 October 1943: 4 November ...
In June 1651, the Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, marched overland with 120 soldiers to Fort Nassau while several armed ships sailed from New Amsterdam to the Delaware River. Stuyvesant took no direct action against the Swedes, but ordered Fort Nassau dismantled and a new fort constructed on the west side of the river a ...
In March, Washington Irving was determined to be a total loss and a bond was issued to refinance the company's debt and to provide financing for its replacement, the Peter Stuyvesant. The Peter Stuyvesant was originally estimated to cost $700,000, but when the boat was completed in June, the final cost was closer to $1,000,000. [20] [21]
So, the company took action and started construction of the biggest ship it had ever made in Baldwin Shipyard. [6] The blueprints used for the boat were based on the Peter Stuyvesant, [7] a boat that used to run the Hudson River until it sank during the Blizzard of 1978. [8] Robert Simons was the marine architect that refined and designed the ...