United States Shipping Board
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The United States Shipping Board was a corporation established as an emergency agency by the 1916 Shipping Act, on September 7, 1916. The United States Shipping Board's task was to increase the number
A World War I poster designed by James Daugherty for the US Shipping Board, ca. 1917–1918.
Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar Harbor, Maine
USS West Bridge, the commandeered British ship War Topaz
USS West Durfee built in 1918 at Skinner & Eddy
SS Vaterland (1913)
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SS Vaterland was an ocean liner launched on 3 April 1913 that began service in 1914 for Germany's Hamburg America Line. The ship, second of three running mates and then the largest passenger ship in t
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…Powhatan, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Republic, President Lincoln, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Antigone, Rhein, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Covington, Friedrich der Große and Vaterland, were among the seized ships. On 15 November 1917, the USSB authorized negotiations with foreign countries that had seized German or Austrian ships…
German ocean liner Vaterland, seen in 1914.
Launch of Vaterland, 3 April 1913
Vaterland (largest ship) and other German liners laid up in New York, 4 April 1917
USS Leviathan in dazzle camouflage