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USS Yank (SP-908)
USS ''Yank'' (SP-908) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. ''Yank'' was a motorboat built in 1917 by Julius Peterson at Nyack, New York. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 8 October 1917 from Mr. N. Ackerman of New York City and commissioned on 10 October 1917. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, ''Yank'' patrolled the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut for the rest of the participation of the United States in World War I. ''Yank'' briefly remained on the Navy Directory after the armistice An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. It is derived from the La ... on 11 November 1918 but was finally returned to her former owner on 14 February 1919. Her name was simultaneously struck from the Navy List. See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Peterson
The Peterson family was a family whose several members had a historical importance in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. They were influential from the beginning of the 19th century till the 1930s in the area of politics, engineering and entrepreneurship. Ernst Conrad Peterson (1778–1841) Early life Ernst Conrad was born on June 18, 1778, in Kołobrzeg. He was the son of Johann Gottfried, a master bricklayer and Dorotha Elisabeth née Mursinna, his second wife. His grandfather Martin Fryderyk, moved from Berlin to Kołobrzeg (then Kolberg) to work as a bricklayer. His father Johann Gottfried was in 1770 a builder involved in the construction of a bridge over the Noteć, Netze river near Nakło nad Notecią, Nakel and then in the leveling of the Bydgoszcz Canal. After a long period of employment in the network regulation between Nakel and Czarnków, Czarnikau, Johann Gottfried was employed as a master builder in Pomerania. Ernst Conrad learned the construction craft with his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
