Requisitioned Ships: Illustrations
Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del.
Requisitioned: 14 ships: Yard nos. 1001-1006 and 1009-1016.
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| Note: On 22 January 1918 two new yards in Gloucester City, N.J., the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Co. and the New Jersey Shipbuilding Co. next to it, were consolidated with the Pusey & Jones Co. of Wilmington, Del. The two Gloucester yards took the Pusey & Jones name in mid-1918. All three yards were owned by Christoffer Hannevig. This page covers only the Wilmington yard. |
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S.S. War Crater, later Marshall (Yard no. 1006) The floor plates of S.S. War Crater on the ways on 28 June 1918. A probable sister ship is further advanced on the ways to the right. The former War Crater was delivered to the EFC as Marshall and immediately sold on 6 February 1919. This shipyard had four building ways for small freighters. Photo No. 165-WW-496F-001 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-165-WW |
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S.S. Piqua, ex War Nurse (Yard no. 1001) Fitting out as Piqua on 25 February 1918. She is under the sheer legs in the position where engines and boilers were installed in ships. She was delivered to the EFC on 8 May 1918. Photo No. 165-WW-498A-052 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-165-WW |
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S.S. Waukesha, ex War Heroine (Yard no. 1002) On a trial trip on 8 June 1918. Photo No. RG-19-A-27 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-A |
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S.S. Aurora, ex War Compass (Yard no. 1005) On a trial trip on 30 August 1918. Photo No. None Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-32-M |
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S.S. Aurora, ex War Compass (Yard no. 1005) This ship was delivered to the EFC on 7 September 1918 and inspected by the Navy on 13 September 1918 without being taken over. This photo of the fully loaded ship is from the back of the ship's Navy inspection data card and may date from around the time of the inspection. Photo No. 105295 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Ship Histories Branch, SP/ID card. |
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S.S. Karl-Erik, ex Aurora (Yard no. 1005) Aurora became the Finnish Karl-Erik in 1949 and was scrapped in 1960. Photo No. NH 105255 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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S.S. Falcon, ex Rock Island (Yard no. 1010) Arriving at a U.S. port on 19 December 1941. The neutrality flags that she was displaying on her sides in late November have been painted out but she does not yet have wartime modifications. She had been delivered to the EFC on 16 July 1919 and sold to Christopher Hannevig (the yard's owner) on 25 July 1919. Photo No. Falcon_1531_009 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1531 |
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S.S. Lara, ex Moline (Yard no. 1009) Departing a U.S. port on 3 May 1942. The first two ships of this class were ordered for the British. They were sold by the Shipping Board in 1925 and 1926 to the Atlantic & Caribbean Steam Navigation Co. which renamed them Lara and Falcon. They passed to the Grace Line in 1938 and were scrapped in 1947-48. Photo No. Lara_2952_006 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/2952 |
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S.S. Falcon, ex Rock Island (Yard no. 1010) Photographed by an aircraft on 30 April 1942. Photo No. 80-G-18164 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G) |
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S.S. Falcon, ex Rock Island (Yard no. 1010) Photographed on 18 February 1945 by a blimp from ZP-12 based at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey. Photo No. 80-G-306255 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G) |
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S.S. Annellen, ex Livonier, ex Shelter Island (Yard no. 1016) At the beginning of 1920 the Lloyd Royal Belge bought five of the six ships of this class that had been ordered for Bulk Oil Transportation Inc., which like the Pusey & Jones yard belonged to Christoffer Hannevig. This one, the only one still in existence in 1945, became Annellen in 1955. Here she has practically no freeboard and is being assisted by a tug. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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