Throughout American history, private ships have been used in times of conflict. This first use occurred on June 12, 1775, at Machias, Maine, when a group of American colonists captured the British ...
LOS ANGELES – The Lane Victory is one of the last of hundreds of hastily built cargo ships that helped win World War II, a testament to Rosie the Riveter and thousands of workers – women and men – who ...
RICHMOND — The SS Red Oak Victory is going back to the ’50s on Sept. 2, with a supper club-type dinner, drinks and dance, to jazz from the Blue Note Era performed by the John Kalleen Group, described ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By 1943, the outlook for an Allied ...
The SS Lane Victory is San Pedro’s other wartime museum ship. The brawny battleship USS Iowa has been a media darling since it was towed to L.A.’s harbor and opened as a museum on July 7. But the Lane ...
In a desolate corner of the Port of Richmond, dozens of women wearing polka-dot handkerchiefs and wielding blowtorches have spent the last two weeks volunteering their time to try to weld a piece of ...
RICHMOND — Mayor Tom Butt on July 1 slammed a decision by his fellow council members to move the SS Red Oak Victory, a historic cargo ship and one of the central landmarks of the Rosie the Riveter ...
William A. Jackson, a pioneering African American merchant seaman who served in two wars, died Oct. 28 of kidney failure in an Oakland hospital. He was 94. A memorial service for Mr. Jackson will be ...
When he was 17, Don Knight quit high school to join the U.S. Merchant Marine, where he had the dangerous job of working on a cargo ship delivering ammunition to troops in the Pacific Theater during ...
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