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Henry A. Hitner's Sons Company
Henry A. Hitner's Sons Company owned an iron works in Philadelphia. The company was established by Henry Adam Hitner and incorporated on 28 December 1906. It purchased many retired United States Navy ships in the early 1900s, converting some of them to merchant ships and scrapping others. Joseph G. Hitner became a member of the company in 1904 and by April 1919 was president of the company. In February 1925 a creditors' committee which had controlled the company for the preceding 18 months was dissolved and the stockholders resumed control with Joseph G. Hitner remaining as president. The company was later renamed the Hitner Industrial Dismantling Company. Partial list of ships scrapped * * * * Yacht ''Columbia'' * * * * * * *All three World War I era ''Truxtun''-class destroyers *Eleven of the thirteen World War I era ''Bainbridge''-class destroyers References :{{DANFS 1906 establishments in Pennsylvania 1925 disestablishments in Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...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] |
Columbia (1899 Yacht)
''Columbia'' was an American racing yacht built in 1899 for the America's Cup races. She was the defender of the tenth America's Cup race that same year against British challenger ''Shamrock'' as well as the defender of the eleventh America's Cup race in 1901 against British challenger ''Shamrock II''. She was the first vessel to win the trophy twice in a row (a record not equaled until '' Intrepid''s back-to-back wins in 1967 and 1970.) Design ''Columbia'', a fin keel sloop, was designed and built in 1898-99 by Nathanael Herreshoff and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for owners J. Pierpont Morgan and Edwin Dennison Morgan of the New York Yacht Club. She was the third successful defender built by Herreshoff. ''Columbia'' had a nickel steel frame, a tobin bronze hull, and a steel mast (later replaced with one of Oregon pine.) Career ''Columbia'' was launched on June 10, 1899. She easily won the elimination trials against the rebuilt former defender, '' Defender''. Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truxtun-class Destroyer
Three ''Truxtun''-class destroyers were built for the United States Navy. Part of the original 16 destroyers authorized by Congress on 4 May 1898 for the fiscal year 1899 program, they were commissioned in 1902.Friedman, p. 10-19, 454 They were very similar to their contemporaries, except for mounting six 6-pounder (57 mm) guns instead of five. They were considered the most successful of the first 16 US Navy destroyers, and were succeeded by the larger . The ''Truxtun''s escorted convoys during World War I. All were decommissioned in 1919 and converted to merchant vessels in 1920. Design Armament The as-built torpedo armament was two torpedo tubes with four torpedoes. The gun armament was two /50 caliber guns and six 6-pounder () guns. During World War I the class was equipped with one or two depth charge racks for the convoy escort mission. Also during World War I, the single torpedo tubes were replaced with two twin torpedo tubes on ''Truxton'' and ''Worden'', wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bainbridge-class Destroyer
The ''Bainbridge''-class destroyers were a class of United States Navy Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBDs) built between 1899 and 1903. The first class so designated, they comprised the first 13 of 16 TBDs authorized by Congress in 1898 following the Spanish–American War. One ship of the class was lost at sea during service in World War I: , which collided with the British merchant ship SS ''Rose'' in 1917. The balance were decommissioned in 1919 and sold postwar in 1920, eleven to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, and the to the Denton Shore Lumber Company in Tampa, Florida. Subclasses Some sources subdivide the ''Bainbridge'' class into subsidiary classes based on their builders' differing designs.Gardiner and Chesneau, pp. 157-158 * the first five vessels - ''Bainbridge'', ''Barry'', ''Chauncey'', ''Dale'' and ''Decatur'' - shared a raised forecastle and had two widely-spaced pairs of funnels. * ''Hopkins'' and had a turtledeck forward and may be considered to be ''Hopkins'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Establishments In Pennsylvania
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