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Cruiser And Transport Force
The Cruiser and Transport Service was a unit of the United States Navy's Atlantic Fleet during World War I that was responsible for transporting American men and materiel to France. Composition On 1 July 1918, the Cruiser and Transport Force was composed of the following ships: Cruiser Force Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves Commander Squadron One Cruiser Force, Squadron One, was under the command of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves ;Division One * ''Seattle'', flagship * * * ''Huntington'' ;Division Two * * ''Pueblo'' * ''Frederick'' * ''San Diego'' ;Division Three * * * * ;Special Duty * * Squadron Two Cruiser Force, Squadron Two, was under the command of Rear Admiral Marbury Johnston ;Division Four Cruiser Force, Squadron Two, Division Four, was commanded by Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones * , flagship * * * ''Rochester'' * ;Division Five * , flagship * ''Denver'' * ''Galveston'' * * ''Des Moines'' ;Division Six * * * * French Navy warsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the United States as of 2015. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2019) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, two new carriers under construction, and five other carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the United States Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 2,623 operational aircraft . The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dupetit Thouars-Marius Bar
Du Petit may refer to: * François Pourfour du Petit François Pourfour du Petit (24 June 1664 – 18 June 1741) was a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who conducted careful anatomical studies of the human eye. He also conducted early experiments in neurology. Petit was born in Paris ... (1664–1741), a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon * Dupetit Thouars (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Czar
SS ''Czar'' was an ocean liner for the then Russian American Line before World War I. In 1920-1930, the ship was named ''Estonia'' for the Baltic American Line, then named ''Pułaski'' for the PTTO (later Gdynia America Line) and as a UK Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as ''Empire Penryn'' after World War II. The liner was built in Glasgow for the Russian American Line in 1912 and sailed on North Atlantic routes from Liepāja (Libau) to New York. On one eastbound voyage in October 1913, ''Czar'' was one of ten ships that came to the aid of the burning Uranium Line steamer . After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the ship came under the control of the UK Shipping Controller and was managed by the Wilson Line and later, the Cunard Line. Under Cunard management in 1918 as HMTIn this case, ''HMT'' stands for ''His Majesty's Transport''. For other uses as a ship prefix, see here, under the heading of "United Kingdom". ''Czar'', she was employed as a troopship carrying United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Republic (AP-33)
USS ''Republic'' (AP-33) was a troop transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. In World War I she served with the Navy as USS ''President Grant'' (ID-3014) before being turned over to the Army and named ''Republic''. The ship was renamed the ''President Buchanan'' in 1921 before reverting to ''Republic'' in 1924. Originally christened as the SS ''Servian'', she was built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd. of Belfast for the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, a subsidiary of International Mercantile Marine Co. spearheaded by J.P. Morgan. After plans for a North Atlantic service collapsed, she spent four years at anchor in the Musgrave Channel in Belfast. After being purchased by the Hamburg-American Packet Steamship Company (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG) in 1907, it was renamed the SS ''President Grant'', the third ship named for Ulysses S. Grant. In August 1914, after seven years of trans-Atlantic passenger service, she took ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Harvard (1888)
The first USS ''Harvard'' of the United States Navy was an auxiliary cruiser in the Spanish–American War. She was launched as ''City of New York'', and later commissioned as ''Plattsburg'' (SP-1645) for service in World War I. Originally a schooner-rigged steamship, she was launched in 1888 as ''City of New York'' by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, for the Inman Line. Sister ship of '' City of Paris'', ''City of New York'' was one of the largest and best liners of her day, and one of the first steamships with twin screws. She was transferred to American registry under the American Line in 1893 as ''New York''. These ships brought the United States to the front rank in the Atlantic passenger trade, and ''New York'' established the record for the Southampton to New York crossing in September 1893. Spanish–American War At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, ''New York'' was chartered as an auxiliary cruiser with a civilian crew, commissioning on 26 April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie
SS ''Kronprinzessin Cecilie'' may refer to one of these ships: * SS ''Kronprinzessin Cecilie'' (1893), , ex ''Prinz Waldemar'' (1893), twin screw, steel steamer built Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (often abbreviated HDW) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Kiel. It is part of the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) group, owned by ThyssenKrupp. The Howaldtswerke shipyard was founded in Kiel in 183 ..., Kiel, still registered in early 1930s as owned by Mecklenburger Seebüder-Linie, Rostock, Germany * , , Hamburg-America Line passenger ship launched 14 October 1905 by Krupp Aktiengesellschaft Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany * , , Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger ship launched 1 December 1906 by AG Vulcan, Stettin, Germany {{DEFAULTSORT:Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Ss Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Yale (1888)
''City of Paris'', was a British-built passenger liner of the Inman Line that held the Blue Riband as the fastest ship on the north Atlantic route from 1889 to 1891 and again from 1892 to 1893. A sister ship of the and a rival of the White Star Line ''Teutonic'' and ''Majestic'', she proved to be the quickest of the pre- twin-screw express liners. In 1893, she was renamed ''Paris'' and transferred to US registry when the Inman Line was merged into the American Line. She and her sister were paired with the new American built ''St Louis'' and ''St Paul'' to form one of the premier Atlantic services. ''Paris'' served the US Navy as the auxiliary cruiser USS ''Yale'' during the Spanish–American War and is remembered for slipping into the harbor at San Juan, Puerto Rico, under the Spanish guns of Morro Castle. After ''Paris'' returned to commercial service, she was seriously damaged in 1899 when she grounded on The Manacles off the British coast. Rebuilt and renamed ''Philadelp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II
The second SS ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'', named for the German Emperor, was a 19,361- gross register ton passenger ship built at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). The ship was completed in the spring of 1903. At the time of her launch she was larger by 1,900 tons than any other German ship and was surpassed in the weight of her hull and machinery only by the British liners ''RMS Cedric'' and ''RMS Celtic''. The ship was seized by the U.S. Government during World War I, and subsequently served as a transport ship under the name USS ''Agamemnon''. A famous photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz called ''The Steerage'', as well as descriptions of the conditions of travel in the lowest class, have conflicted with her otherwise glitzy reputation as a high class, high speed trans-Atlantic liner. Design The ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'' was built with a full double-bottom along the hull. She was divided into 26 watertight compartments via 16 transverse bulkheads and one longitudinal bulkhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SM U-62
SM ''U-62'' was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. ''U-62'' was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atla .... On 8 March 1917, ''SM U-62'' sank the coal freighter , the ship that had rammed and sunk the ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. On 7 August 1918, she torpedoed the French armoured cruiser ''Dupetit-Thouars'', which sank with the loss of 13 of her crew. Summary of raiding history References Notes Citations Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:U0062 World War I submarines of Germany 1916 ships U-boats commissioned in 1916 Ships built in Bremen (state) Type U 57 submarines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Cruiser Dupetit-Thouars
''Dupetit-Thouars'' was a armoured cruiser of the French Navy. She was torpedoed and sunk on 7 August 1918 by with the loss of 13 of her crew. Design and description Designed by the naval architect Emile Bertin, the ''Gueydon''-class ships were intended to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École. They measured long overall with a beam of and had a draught of . ''Dupetit-Thouars'' displaced . The ship had a crew of 566 officers and enlisted men.Campbell, p. 305 The ''Gueydon'' class had three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for ''Dupetit-Thouars''s engines was provided by 28 Belleville boilers and they were rated at a total of that gave them a speed of . The ships enough coal to steam for at a speed of .Silverstone, p. 79 The ''Gueydon''s had a main armament that consisted of two 40- caliber guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
