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UPDATED: MILITARY🎖️MEDALS PROGRAM & CONGRESSIONAL GOLD -Effective Monday, Sep 8th, 2025, the medals program will be moved to the “Historian’s Office” at MARAD. The primary contact in that office is: Daniel Roberts - [email protected]
Information is now on our website to APPLY for a duplicate bronze medal of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to WWII USMM Veterans living or deceased! Please carry on their legacy! maritime.dot.gov/outreach/el…
Pan-New York- “The explosion from the torpedo blew gasoline over the ship aft of the tank. Flames and fumes were sucked down into the engine room and crew's quarters, causing many to be overcome with smoke and fumes. Flames upon the water and rough seas prevented the rafts and the only remaining lifeboat from being launched. Survivors gathered aft to await rescue.”
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Friends, this is a seafaring song about a merchant vessel, Cannery Row, Monterey, and decisions with consequences. The Wind and the Waves, by @mamilton youtu.be/C5LKaadZHAI?si=b1mF…
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No one knew this better than WWII Merchant Marine veterans like my late father. We had to get aged mariners out of mothballs for the Gulf War as well as ships. One of his friends, long retired disappeared for months and it turned out he had gone back to the Persian Gulf.
The S.S. Vitruvius was the second concrete ship built by McCloskey and Co. in Tampa, FL.. She was launched in Dec of 1943 and used in the sugar trade with Cuba. In March of 1944, the Vitruvius and the S.S. David O. Saylor set sail for Liverpool, England to join a fleet of ships to participate in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. armed-guard.net/ss-vitruvius…
Wind Rush’s return voyage to the US from Liverpool to NY and some details of the battle that was fought with the German U-boats south of Iceland and the US destroyer that rammed a U-boat during the general action that took place. At Loch Ewe, Scotland, in December 1943 the voyage to Murmansk in convoy JW 51A (outbound) and RA 52 (return). armed-guard.net/ss-wind-rush…
The tanker SS Gurney E. Newlin was torpedoed by U-436 in the North Atlantic while in convoy to Manchester, England. Three were killed in the initial attack, however 45 lost their lives when the rescue ship, SS Bic Island was torpedoed the following night. navylog.navymemorial.org/gur…
#OTD 27 Oct 1942 Gurney E. Newlin was struck by one torpedo in the engine room on the port side and immediately began to settle by the stern. One officer and two crewmen on watch below were lost. Crew 59 (3 dead and 56 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchants/s…
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Uncle Sam Needs You, Now! 🫵
1944 newsreel: Capt. Harry H. Dreany urgently calls for men aged 17 to 50 to join the U.S. Maritime Service. Training, loading and convoy footage from the ships that kept WWII supplied.
Would you have answered? 👇
#WW2 #History #MerchantMarine
#OTD 26 Oct 1942 the unescorted Anne Hutchinson was hit on the starboard side by two of four torpedoes from U-504 about 60 miles east of East London, South Africa. Crew 57 (3 dead and 54 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchants/s…
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Some of those merchant ships were such bad rust buckets that just firing the main gun would break things near gun mount. Dad told me a few stories but I'm sure it had to effect their thinking every time they saw a tin can or flat top sail by. He was a Signalman and proud of it.
I never heard that before. They are forgotten by the country and I never understood that. There is a great website started by a WWII Navy Armed Guard. Armed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine | World War II VeteransArmed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine | World War II Veterans share.google/VCtQt3Q2fZBdXM9…
That's certainly a different way of framing the situation. My dad was in the "Armed Guard", an almost forgotten branch of the @USNavy and he was blown out of the water twice in WWII while on merchant ships. The rest of the Navy just sneered at the Armed Guard as not real Navy.
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“A seafarer who sails into a war zone under state orders, on a ship that the enemy is trying to sink, has participated in that war. However, most countries still do not recognize that person as a veteran.” 🎯
Original SS Cody Victory transferred to Peru and renamed Yavari. Photo made in Panama Canal in September 1948. Caught fire at Los Angeles in 1968 and sold to shipbreakers in 1969 but sank in March 1969 - Provided by Chuck Durand. #VictoryShip
