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UPDATED: MILITARY🎖️MEDALS PROGRAM & CONGRESSIONAL GOLD -Effective Monday, Sep 8th, 2025, the medals program will be moved to the “Historian’s Office” at MARAD. The primary contact in that office is: Daniel Roberts - [email protected]
Information is now on our website to APPLY for a duplicate bronze medal of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to WWII USMM Veterans living or deceased! Please carry on their legacy! maritime.dot.gov/outreach/el…
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Wife's Father (RIP) has Mariner's ID from Pacific Theater Service. Thanks for the Medal Info. Will pass it on to Our Daughter (His Grand Daughter.) when/If Awarded.
I was a USMMA Midshipman, then a Ship's Engineer during Vietnam Years, 1973-1976. Was in Zone multiple times..
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My Pops was a Sailer ; a Merchant Marine during WWII ; born in 1911 , oldest of 9 siblings, lived through the Great Depression , hitchhiked all over the country and sent 50% of his wages home to his siblings. During World War II, one of his ships was torpedo three times on the starboard side and did not sink. He was evacuated ship was towed to Egypt and put on dry dock. I didn’t fall far from the Tree
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xitter.cf/USMMWWII/status/211377… Sadly, scenes like this were all too common in 1942 of the US coasts. The U-boat war was taking a terrible toll on US shipping, and this is an example of just one of those ships lost.
The SS Tiger (sinking) and under tow by the tug Relief after being torpedoed by U-754 on April 1, 1942. Under tow near Cape Henry, VA. Tiger, originally built as a freighter, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-754 just after midnight on 1 April 1942, after she had reduced speed to pick up a pilot before entering Chesapeake Bay. She sank in shallow water during salvage efforts on 2 April 1942. shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/sh…
Former SS Netherlands Victory, renamed Pelican State, discharging nitrate at Nagoya, Japan, October 1949 - Provided by Chuck Durand. #VictoryShip
The SS Tiger (sinking) and under tow by the tug Relief after being torpedoed by U-754 on April 1, 1942. Under tow near Cape Henry, VA. Tiger, originally built as a freighter, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-754 just after midnight on 1 April 1942, after she had reduced speed to pick up a pilot before entering Chesapeake Bay. She sank in shallow water during salvage efforts on 2 April 1942. shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/sh…
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I’m gearing up for my last ship launch at NASSCO this weekend. The past 3 years has been a great ride, and I’m thankful to the shipyard for all the things I’ve learned here and the great people I’ve gotten to work with!
I can’t think of a better way to end this chapter than helping send USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg down the ways!
More details next week on what’s coming next.
Question for the experts! @mercoglianos @johnkonrad
#OTD 23 Oct 1942 the unescorted Reuben Tipton was torpedoed by U-129 about 400 miles northeast of Trinidad. As the ship settled by the head the master noticed that she could be saved, restarted the engines and proceeded towards the coast. Crew 54 (3 dead and 51 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchants/s…
Stern section of the tanker MS Brilliant sinking on January 24, 1943 off Newfoundland. 44 men adrift on this section for 5 days after she broke in two on January 20, 1943. aukevisser.nl/mobil/id679.ht…
Liberty Ship SS Charles Morgan with stern resting on the bottom off Utah Beach, Normandy, France. On June 10, 1944 while at anchor in thirty-three feet of water off Utah beach at Normandy she was hit by aircraft bombs. At 500-lb bomb hit the center of No. 5 hatch, blowing off the hatch covers and strongbacks and buckled and ruptured the main deck. Read more at wrecksite: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2617
"Aurora" ex. "Miller County" damaged after hit by three torpedoes and subjected to a severe shelling. On May 16, 1942, she was waylaid by two German U-boats, hit by three torpedoes and subjected to a severe shelling. At the time she was 40 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River. She was repaired in Louisiana and put back in service. aukevisser.nl/mobil/id678.ht…
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Today is the 229th anniversary of the launch of USS Constitution, the ship America calls Old Ironsides.
On October 21, 1797, she slid into Boston Harbor as one of the first six ships of the United States Navy. In the War of 1812, British cannonballs bounced off her thick oak hull and sailors swore her sides were made of iron. The name stuck. She is still a commissioned U.S. Navy ship today, crewed by active-duty sailors, and the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.
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If you go to this website, it will tell you everything you need to know about the US merchant marine. They’re even featured at the World War II museum in New Orleans. Several of the interviews are from people that I have met in the past working with World War II veterans usmm.org/infomm.pdf
Amen @SheldonEditor and thank you for your service as well!
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Hearing word that the deployment of TS Empire State VII to Diego Garcia may be cancelled.
What say you @MSCSealift, @DOTMARAD and @MaritimeCollege?
On Jul 5, 1944 SS Sea Porpoise, having just transported American troops to Normandy, was torpedoed – with Woody Guthrie on board. The ship was towed back to England for repairs. Guthrie, along with fellow folk singer Cisco Houston, disembarked and traveled by train from Southampton to Waterloo Station, as detailed in Jim Longhi's out-of-print book, "Woody, Cisco and Me: With Woody Guthrie in the Merchant Marine."
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It was this guy.
Then the Legacy Media wanted to hide this photo and his motive.
Elon Musk fired this man for attacking a woman who stepped on his prayer rug.
Three months later, Ndiaga Diagne murdered three innocent people in downtown Austin.
The warning signs were right there and Tesla acted on them. Our immigration system never did.
Screen who we let in, or keep burying Americans.
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yes, the British Navy arrested and searched our merchant ships before the U.S. entered WWII
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She was outfitted as a convoy rescue ship for WWII!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bur…