USS Mohican (SP-117)
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The third USS Mohican, later USS SP-117, was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
USS SP-117, formerly USS Mohican (SP-117), refitting at Tebo's Yacht Works in Brooklyn, New York in the spring of 1919 after decommissioning there in February 1919.
Mohican as a private steam yacht before her US Navy service.
Norseman, later Mohican - first vessel to navigate the Manchester Ship Canal when opened in 1894
Cammell Laird
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Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company a
USS Mohican (SP-117)
…as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Mohican was designed by St Clare John Byrne, built as the civilian steam yacht Norseman and launched in 1890 by Laird Brothers in Birkenhead, Wirral, for Engineer Samuel Radcliffe Platt. When sold by Platt, she was renamed SS Lady Godiva and later when purchased by New Yorker…
1915 advertisement for Cammell Laird
The layout of Cammell Laird's docks in 1909
Cammell Laird's covered submarine building hall and berth cranes, 2006
A Fort Victoria-class replenishment oiler undergoing refit work at Cammell Laird, 2009