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The FReeper Canteen Presents...
~ National Maritime Day (May 22nd) ~
STEAMSHIP SAVANNAH - 1819 On May 22, 1819, the SS Savannah left its home port of Savannah, Georgia on its way to Liverpool, England. The ship "put to sea with steam and sails" and reached Liverpool in 29 days and four hours, becoming the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. While the steam engine performed faultlessly, it was not the only means of propulsion; historians have estimated that the Savannah was under sail 80% of the time. Nonetheless, it was an impressive achievement, one that signaled the beginning of the era of steam, and American technological leadership. The holiday was created by the United States Congress on May 20, 1933.
      
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UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), established in 1943, is operated by the Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The mission of the Academy, located on 82-waterfront acres 20 miles from New York City, is to educate and graduate officers and leaders of honor and integrity to serve in America's merchant marine, maritime and intermodal transportation industries, and the Armed Forces. Click for the rest of the story
Harbor at Cam Ranh Bay 
USNS Point Cruz loaded with CH-47 helicopters, F-5 fighters and truck trailers in 1968
US MERCHANT MARINE IN VIETNAM
Army In February 1951 the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) aircraft carrier Windham Bay, was the first large ship to navigate the Long Tam River since 1925. While the ship was docked at Saigon (French Indochina) 17 hand grenades were tossed at the ship by terrorists. The Military Sea Transportation Service was established in 1949 to provide sea transportation to the military as a successor to the Army Transportation Service. MSTS operated a fleet of ships and had charter agreements with commercial shipping firms. MSTS was succeeded by Military Sealift Command. In 1954, after the partitioning of Vietnam, MSTS evacuated Vietnamese refugees from North to South Vietnam. USNS Howze was one of many MSTS ships involved in "Passage to Freedom" bringing 300,000 refugees and 200,000 tons of Cargo from North Vietnam. [Your webmistress arrived in the United States in 1949 on the USAT General R. L. Howze as a refugee of World War II.] The Military Sea Transportation Service had the job of bringing war supplies to Vietnam -- 10,000 miles from the Pacific coast. MSTS had four separate customers to serve: the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. MSTS ships were staffed by "civilian" crews, but carried 95% of the supplies used by our Armed Forces in Vietnam including bombs and ammunition into combat zones under fire. Crew members were given Navy grades and rank identification in event of enemy capture. During Vietnam, MSTS first utilized roll-on/roll-off ships and container ships which speeded loading and unloading. Click for the rest of the story
United States Army
United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
United States Air Force
United States Coast Guard
US MERCHANT MARINE IN WORLD WAR II
One way to understand the Second World War is to appreciate the critical role of merchant shipping... the availability or non-availability of merchant shipping determined what the Allies could or could not do militarily.... when sinkings of Allied merchant vessels exceeded production, when slow turnarounds, convoy delays, roundabout routing, and long voyages taxed transport severely, or when the cross-Channel invasion planned for 1942 had to be postponed for many months for reasons which included insufficient shipping. Had these ships not been produced, the war would have been in all likelihood prolonged many months, if not years. Some argue the Allies would have lost as there would not have existed the means to carry the personnel, supplies, and equipment needed by the combined Allies to defeat the Axis powers. [It took 7 to 15 tons of supplies to support one soldier for one year.] The U.S. wartime merchant fleet. . . constituted one of the most significant contributions made by any nation to the eventual winning of the Second World War. In the final assessment, the huge US merchant fleet... provided critical logistical support to the war effort. Click for the rest of the story
Where The Stars & Stripes and The Eagles Fly She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
There’s A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
Ragged Old Flag
Battle Hymn of The Republic
    MERCHANT MARINE EMBLEM, MEDALS and RIBBONS
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OVER ALASKA
A KC-135 Stratotanker provides aerial refueling to an F-15 Eagle over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex during Red Flag-Alaska, April 28, 2011. The F-15 pilot is assigned to the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, and the KC-135 crew is assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Miguel Lara III
CAT'S CRADLE
Sheryl Flanary, left, and U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Sara Edmonson teach a patient to play cat's cradle at a Continuing Promise medical clinic set up by staff assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Paita, Peru, May 3, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Brian A. Goyak
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