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| x USS Albacore |
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National | 89001077 | Charles Momsen |
USS Albacore (AGSS-569) was a unique research submarine that pioneered the American version of the teardrop hull form (sometimes referred to as an "Albacore hull") of modern submarines. The revolutionary design was derived from extensive...
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| x Ticonderoga |
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National | 66000797 |
The steamboat Ticonderoga is America’s last remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America’s lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries...
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| x USS Constitution |
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National | 66000789 |
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world....
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| x PT 617 |
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National | 89002465 |
PT 617, also known as Torpedo Boat PT-617, Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents [the USA]'s most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II." It is a museum ship...
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| x Rebecca T. Ruark | National | 85001095 |
The Rebecca T. Ruark is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Taylor's Island, Maryland in 1896. She is homeported at Tilghman Island, Maryland . She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
The Rebecca T. Ruark is a typical sloop-rigged...
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| x Hilda M. Willing |
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National | 85001089 |
Hilda M. Willing is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack. Built in 1905 at Oriole, Maryland she is a relatively small skipjack. She is ported at Tilghman Island, Maryland .
She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
The Willing is one of two...
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| x Charles W. Morgan |
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National | 66000804 |
Charles W. Morgan was a U.S. whaleship during the 19th and early 20th century. Ships of this type usually harvested the blubber of whales for whale oil, which was commonly used in lamps during the time period. The ship is currently an exhibit at the...
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| x L. A. Dunton |
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National | 93001612 |
L. A. DUNTON is one of two remaining fishing schooners built at the A.D. Story Shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts.
Dunton was modeled after a ship designed by Thomas J. McManus and was among the last large, purely sail-powered fishing vessels built....
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| x USS Constellation |
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National | 66000918 |
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk,...
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| x USS Bowfin |
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National | 82000149 |
USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bowfin, a voracious, predatory fish native to the Great Lakes, the Mississippi valley, and nearby waters. This dull green, but iridescent fish is...
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| x Falls of Clyde |
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National | 73000659 |
Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. Designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, she is presently a museum ship in Honolulu, but has deteriorated to...
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| x Elissa |
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National | 78002930 |
The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque. She is currently moored in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today.
The Elissa was built in Aberdeen, Scotland as a merchant vessel in a time when steamships were overtaking...
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| x Sergeant Floyd |
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National | 89001079 |
Sergeant Floyd is a towboat in Sioux City, Iowa. It is "[o]ne of only a handful of surviving U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessels".
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
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| x City of Milwaukee |
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National | 90002221 |
The SS City of Milwaukee is a Great Lakes railroad car ferry that once plied Lake Michigan, often between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was built for the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company in 1931 at Manitowoc, Wisconsin to...
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| x Adventuress |
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National | 89001067 |
Adventuress is a 133-foot gaff-rigged schooner launched in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine. She has since been restored, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
Adventuress is currently operated by Sound Experience, a non-profit organization...
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| x Duwamish |
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National | 89001448 |
The Duwamish reigned as one of the most powerful fireboats in the United States several times over her 75-year working life. She is the second oldest vessel designed to fight fires in the USA, after the Edward M Cotter, in Buffalo, New York.
She was...
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| x USS Hornet |
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National | 91002065 |
USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is a United States Navy aircraft carrier of the Essex class. Construction started in August 1942; she was originally named USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the USS Hornet (CV-8), which was lost in October 1942,...
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| x USS Laffey |
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National | 83002189 |
USS Laffey (DD-724), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bartlett Laffey. Seaman Laffey was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces on 5 March 1864. The ship...
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| x USCGC Ingham |
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National | 92001879 |
USCGC Ingham (WHEC-35) , one of only two preserved Treasury-class cutters. Originally Samuel D. Ingham, she was the fourth cutter to be named for Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham (1779–1860). She was the most decorated vessel in the Coast Guard...
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| x Star of India |
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National | 66000223 |
Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route....
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| x C.A. Thayer |
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National | 66000229 |
The C.A. Thayer is a schooner built in 1895, now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. She is one of the few survivors of the sailing schooners in the West coast lumber trade to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and...
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| x Ralph J. Scott |
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National | 89001430 |
The Ralph J. Scott, also known as Fireboat #2, is a 100-foot fireboat that was attached to the Los Angeles Fire Department serving the Port of Los Angeles. It was retired in 2003 after 78 years and replaced by the Warner L. Lawrence. The Ralph J....
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| x USS Lexington |
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National | 03001043 |
USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16), known as "The Blue Ghost", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the fifth US Navy ship to bear the name, is named in honor of the...
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| x Kathryn |
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National | 85001090 |
The Kathryn , a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, was built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901. Ported at Tilghman Island, Maryland, she is reputedly one of the fastest skipjacks on the Bay . She was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 19, 1994.
The...
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| x USS North Carolina |
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National | 81000424 |
USS North Carolina (BB-55) ("Showboat") was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of this U.S. state. She was the first new-construction U.S. battleship to enter service during World...
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| x SS Jeremiah O'Brien |
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National | 78000796 |
SS Jeremiah O'Brien, also known as Jeremiah O'Brien (Liberty ship), is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818). Now based in San Francisco, the O'Brien is a rare...
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| x RMS Queen Mary |
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National | 92001714 |
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be...
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| x SMS Cormoran | State | 75002156 |
SMS Cormoran or SMS Cormoran II was built at Danzig, Germany in 1909 for the Russian merchant fleet and named SS Ryaezan (Rjasan or Rjäsan). She was used by imperial Russia as a combination passenger, cargo and mail carrier on North Pacific routes....
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| x Eureka |
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State | 80004200 |
The Eureka is a side-wheel paddle steamboat, built in 1890, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. Originally named the Ukiah to commemorate the railway's recent extension into the...
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| x Delta King |
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State | 78000797 |
The Delta King is a 285 ft long paddlewheel steamboat. The Delta King is the sister ship to the Delta Queen, christened May 20, 1927, traveling between Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California on 10 hour trips.
In November 1940, the...
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| x Wawona |
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Local | 70000643 |
The three-masted, fore-and-aft schooner Wawona sailed from 1897 to 1947 as a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in Puget Sound. The schooner was built in California's Humboldt Bay by Hans Ditlev Bendixsen , one of the most important West Coast...
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| x Western Union |
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Local | 84000930 |
The Western Union is a historic schooner in Key West, Florida, United States. It is located in the Key West Bight at 202 William Street. On May 16, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1939 by Thompson...
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| x H. L. Hunley |
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Local | 78003412 |
H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in naval warfare. The Confederate States Ship (CSS) Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of...
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| x Yankee |
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Local | 92001610 |
Yankee (also known as Machigonne) is an early-20th century steel hulled ferry which is registered as an historic vessel with the National Register of Historic Places . As of 2006 it was berthed in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Described as unusually...
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| x John J. Harvey |
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Local | 00000576 |
The John J. Harvey is a fireboat formerly of the New York City Fire Department in New York City, famed for returning to service following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At 130 feet and 268 net tons, she is among the most powerful fireboats ever in...
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| x Lewis R. French |
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National | 82005263 |
The Lewis R. French is a two-masted schooner and a U.S. National Historic Landmark launched in 1871, now located in Camden, Maine.
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| x Stephen Taber |
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National | 84001386 |
The Stephen Taber, a two-masted schooner, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Rockland, Maine. It is currently being operated as a windjammer.
The boat was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and designated a National...
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| x Isaac H. Evans | National | 91002061 |
Isaac H. Evans, formerly known as Boyd N. Sheppard, is a two-masted schooner in Rockland, Maine. It is a Maine windjammer.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
The Evans is part of the Maine Windjammer fleet and member of the Maine...
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| x J. & E. Riggin |
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National | 91002062 |
The schooner J. & E. Riggin, a National Historic Landmark, was built on the Maurice River in Dorchester, New Jersey in 1927. Charles Riggin had her built for his oyster dredging fleet and named her after his sons, Jacob and Edward. They all...
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| x American Eagle |
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National | 91002064 |
The American Eagle is a two-masted schooner launched in 1930 that is one of the last of its type built in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her original name was Andrew and Rosalie.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
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| x Victory Chimes |
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National | 93000637 |
The three-masted schooner Victory Chimes, also known as Edwin and Maud or Domino Effect, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The boat on the Maine State Quarter is meant to resemble the Victory Chimes.
The boat was added to the National Historic...
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| x SS Columbia |
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National | 79001171 |
COLUMBIA (steamer), also known as The Bob-Lo Boat or Steamer COLUMBIA, is a ship built in 1902 and located in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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| x PT 796 |
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National | 86000092 |
The PT 796 is a National Historic Landmark that is part of the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts.
The World War II boat was built in 1945 by Higgins Industries. The PT 796 was added to the National Historic Register in 1986....
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| x Edmee S. |
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National | 85002258 |
The Edmee S. is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe. She was built in the Tilghman Island style from hewn logs by Oliver Duke in the 1930's. She is one of the last 22 Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes, and is actively raced with a crew of nine to eleven...
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| x USCGC Taney |
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National | 88001826 |
USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) (pronounced /ˈteini/ "tay-nee") is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last ship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although she was actually moored in nearby Honolulu...
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| x Baltimore | National | 93001613 |
The Baltimore is a preserved steam-powered tugboat, built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the oldest operating steam tugboat in the United States. The Baltimore was built and operated as a harbor inspection...
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| x Edna E. Lockwood |
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National | 86000258 |
The Edna E. Lockwood is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye, the last working oyster boat of her kind. She is located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland . She was built in 1889 at Tilghman Island, Maryland by John B. Harrison and...
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| x SS John W. Brown | National | 97001295 |
SS John W. Brown, also known as B-4611, is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational today (the other being the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco). The ship is today a museum ship located at Clinton Street Pier 1 in Baltimore Harbor. The ship...
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| x Delta Queen |
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National | 70000495 |
The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat that is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Historically, it has been used for cruising the major rivers that constitute the drainage of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South. As...
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| x Belle of Louisville |
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National | 72000535 |
The Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period. Originally named the Idlewild, she was built...
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| x Christeen |
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National | 91002060 |
Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
She was built in 1883 in Glenwood Landing, New York as a gaff-rigged sloop. She had several homes including Essex, Connecticut, but in...
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| x Sabino |
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National | 92001887 |
The Sabino, (Pronounced Sah Bee No) is a small wooden coal-fired steamer ship built in 1908 and currently located at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only two surviving members of the American "mosquito fleet". The ship...
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| x Emma C. Berry |
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National | 94001649 |
Emma C. Berry is a fishing sloop located at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, United States, and one of the oldest surviving commercial vessels in America. It is the last known surviving American well smack. This type of boat is also termed a...
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| x USS Texas |
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National | 76002039 |
USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.
Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw...
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| x George M. Verity |
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National | 89002459 |
George M. Verity is a towboat now located in Keokuk, Iowa. It is significant for being one of only three steam-powered towboats in existence in the United States.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
Built in 1927 at Dubuque, Iowa...
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| x Mercantile |
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National | 82005265 |
The two-masted schooner Mercantile is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
The boat became a landmark in 1991.
Mercantile was built in 1916 and served as a coastal trading vessel until 1943, at which point she entered the tourist trade in Maine.
She...
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| x Roseway |
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National | 97001278 |
The Roseway is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on November 24, 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. She is now restored and listed as a National Historic Landmark.
She is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational...
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| x Ste. Claire |
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National | 79001177 |
SS Ste. Claire is a steamship located in River Rouge, Michigan that was formerly located in Detroit, Michigan. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1992.
The ship was designed by Frank E. Kirby, who also designed the SS Columbia....
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| x Edna G |
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National | 75002144 |
The EDNA G is a tugboat who worked the Great Lakes. The railroad paid $35,397.50 for the Edna G. in 1896. It was out of service from 1931 to 1933 due to the depression. The Edna G. was built by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company in 1896 for the...
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| x USS Drum |
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National | 86000086 |
USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, any of various types of fish capable of making a drumming sound. Drum is presently on display as a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama.
Drum...
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