USS Housatonic (SP-1697)
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The second USS Housatonic was the Southern Pacific Steamship Company freighter El Rio. The ship was one of four company ships temporarily converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage.
The USS Housatonic (SP-1697)
Agwilines Inc
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Agwilines Inc was a passenger and cargo shipping company of New York City. Agwilines is short for Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Inc. AGWI Lines group operated four main lines in the 1910s, 19
USS Housatonic (SP-1697)
…for conversion to wartime naval use. After return to commercial service the ship resumed normal freight operations. In 1925 the ship was sold to the Clyde-Mallory Lines and renamed Brazos. In 1935 the vessel was sold to Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines (Agwilines) continuing freight service until sunk in a collision…
Agwilines Inc Lines
Mallory Line 1905
Share of the Consolidated Steamship Lines, issued 6 June 1907
Agwilines's Satilla at Houston, Texas, in 1915