John Paul Jones (Dell, 1959); Robert Stack photo cover
comic companion to the film; Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King’s army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he volunteers to lead the colonists’ ragtag fleet to impressive victories against the British Navy; during a battle against the British ship Serapis, Jones utters the deathless words “I have not yet begun to fight.”
While his brave and intelligent leadership helps win America its freedom, his appeals to Benjamin Franklin (Charles Coburn) and the other leaders of Congress to strengthen the United States Navy fall on deaf ears; Jones is eventually branded a troublemaker, and in time, he is ordered to Russia, where he is to help guide the fleet of Catherine The Great (Bette Davis).
Jones leads the Russian Navy to stunning victories in the Black Sea, reestablishing his reputation as one of the great military minds of his day. (allmovie)
The Bellerophon, Plymouth Sound (Vignette), engraved by E. Goodall published 1836
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“Bomb Tokyo with Your Extra Change”
World War II “$1.00 In War Stamps From Every American Will Build the Mystery Ship…Shangri-La” (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943). Propaganda Posters
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.
Shangri-La was decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrap in 1988. She remained in the reserve fleet for the next 11 years, and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 July 1982.
She was retained by MARAD for several years to provide spare parts for the training carrier Lexington. On 9 August 1988, she was sold for scrap and later towed to Taiwan for demolition.
The naming of the ship was a radical departure from the general practice of the time, which was to name aircraft carriers after battles or previous US Navy ships.
After the Doolittle Raid, launched from the Hornet, President Roosevelt answered a reporter’s question by saying that the raid had been launched from “Shangri-La”, the fictional faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon.
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) on wikipedia
The ship, built at Sparrows Point, MD in 1911, was formerly the packet steamer SS President Warfield for theBaltimore Steam Packet Company, (American steamship line from 1840 to 1962) providing overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia.
President Warfield was expropriated in 1942 by the War Shipping Administration for national defense as a transport during World War II. Following the end of World War II, the President Warfield was decommissioned and returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal as surplus.
The old President Warfield was eventually acquired in early 1947 by Mossad Le’aliyah Bet, a Jewish organization helping Holocaust survivors illegally reach Palestine, then under British mandate.
The former Baltimore Steam Packet and U.S. Navy steamship was renamed Exodus when she embarked from France for Palestine on July 11, 1947, carrying 4,515 passengers. +
The Exodus arrives at Haifa in July 1947
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June 6, 1944: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins.
In June of 1940, Nazi Germany successfully completed its invasion of France with the signing of an armistice at Compiègne, which divided France into two zones - one which was to be henceforth occupied by German troops, and a “free zone”, to be administered by a French government at Vichy. In late 1942 German-Italian forces carried out a complete military occupation of the free zone. By 1944 much of Europe was either occupied by Axis forces or controlled by direct allies; between the neutral Iberian Peninsula to the Eastern Front, France, Greece, the Baltics, the Netherlands, and Denmark were among the states occupied by German or Axis forces. Along the western coast of Europe, Germany established a system of fortifications collectively known as the “Atlantic Wall”, whose construction began in 1942 to thwart an Allied invasion launched across the English Channel from Great Britain.
The landing of Allied forces at Normandy on June 6, 1944 (commonly known as D-Day) marked the beginning of Operation Overlord and the beginning of the liberation of mainland Europe from its occupation by Nazi Germany. As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower was charged with planning and carrying out the beach landing assault, an enormous and momentous task - in the end, approximately 160,000 troops participated in the assault on an 80 km long stretch of Normandy coast, which was divided into five sectors: Gold, Utah, Sword, Juno, and Omaha, the link between the U.S. and British sectors, the most easily defensible beach, and the area where fighting was bloodiest. The troops were supported by a fleet of nearly 7,000 vessels, directed mostly by the Royal Navy; airborne operations were also a key element of the landings, with at least 13,000 paratroopers taking part. To mislead and confound Axis military leaders regarding the true date and location of the impending assault, the Allies implemented Operation Bodyguard.
The enormously successful operation was a decisive victory for the Allied powers and a major blow to Germany’s psyche and morale. Operation Overlord came to an end with the destruction of German forces at the Falaise Pocket in August of 1944 and the liberation of Paris days later.
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EASTWIND (WAGB-279); Antarctic Operation Deep Freeze
(1955-56); PENGUIN DRILL TEAM
Player’s Cigarettes “Polar Exploration”; A series of 25 cards issued in 1914
#7 Ross & Parry’s Arctic Expedition, 1818 (1098 x 592)
Commander Ross at the North Magnetic Pole
#3 How Icebergs Are Formed
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Orb in his paddock; 138th running of the Preakness Stakes 2013, Pimlico Raceway, Baltimore, Maryland
The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
First run in 1873, the Preakness Stakes was named by a former Maryland Governor after a winning colt at Pimlico. The race has been termed “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans,” Maryland’s state flower.
Jonah and the Whale. Carlo Antonio Tavella, mid C17th. (via National Maritime Museum)
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April 13, 1912 - Titanic relayed part of the midnight Marconi news service to Minnehaha, eastbound, New York to London, and on the fringe of the Marconi transmitter (M P D) at Poldhu, England.
Port of Registry: London, England
Flag of Registry: British
Length: 600.7 ft.
Breadth: 65.5 ft.
Draft (or Depth): 39.5 ft
Tonnage: 13,443 tons (gross), 8,637 (net)
Engines: Quadruple expansion, 8 cyl. (2) 30” (2) 43”, (2) 63”, (2) 89” x 60” stroke
Speed: 16 knots
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast (Yard No. 329)
Launched: March 25, 1900
Maiden Voyage: August 11, 1900
Disposition: September 7, 1917; Torpedoed 12 miles from Fastnet off the Irish coast; 42 lost.
Tora! Tora! Tora! was a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatized the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Directed by Richard Fleischer and featuring an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards…
Coming this week on Maritime Monday:
Tora! Tora! Tora! (20th Century Fox, 1970). One Sheet
Starring Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Frank Aletter, Leon Ames, and Richard Anderson. Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda.
Lasar Segall‘s work was considered “degenerate art” by Nazi Germany and and could no longer be shown in exhibitions. Segall created one of his most famous artworks in 1939, known as Navio de emigrantes (Ship of Emigrants).
A ship, overcrowded with emigrant passengers, their solemn faces and lack of expression showing the brutal reality of emigrants during their depressing, and sometimes dangerous, voyage to a new life.
Immigrants on the SS Bremen
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