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Tug JAMES E. SMITH

For actions taken on December 19, 1979:

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Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay, Long Island, built the tug James E. Smith for the Bush Terminal Railroad Company in 1958. Bush Terminal named the 98-...

The Long Range Shipbuilding Program of the U.S. Maritime Commission

The first federal agency charged with promoting a U.S. merchant marine was the United States Shipping Board of 1916. With America’s entry into World War I in 1917, the Shipping Board constructed a fleet of merchant vessels that later became the nucleus of the U.S. maritime industry in the...