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AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINES
ATLANTIC, GULF, & WEST INDIES
STEAMSHIP LINES
FRAMED / MATTED UNDER GLASS
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MEASURES ABOUT 13" x 10"
DEPICTS NAVAL OFFICERS
SCANNING THE HORIZON FOR ENEMY VESSELS
CIRCA 1940 +/-
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The New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly called the Ward Line, was a shipping company that operated from 1841 until liquidated in 1954. The line operated out of New York City's Piers 15, 16, and 17—land which later became the site of the South Street Seaport and also the Manhattan terminal of the IKEA-Red Hook ferry route. The company’s steamers linked New York City with Nassau, Havana, and Mexican Gulf ports. The company had a good reputation for safety until a series of disasters in the mid-1930s, including the SS Morro Castle disaster. Soon after, the company changed its name to the Cuba Mail Line. In 1947, the Ward Line name was restored when service was resumed after World War II, but rising fuel prices and competition from airlines caused the company to cease operation in 1954.
In 1907 Consolidated Steamship Lines, a shipping conglomerate of Charles W. Morse, bought the Ward Line for a large sum. When that company went bankrupt the following year, the former subsidiaries of Consolidated, including the Ward Line, joined forces to form the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines (Agwilines) holding company. Common resources were pooled, but each company maintained its own management.
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William Pancoast Clyde (1839–1923) was the head of the Clyde Steamship Company, a steamship and canal boat mercantile and passenger transportation business founded by his father Thomas Clyde in 1844. In 1882 it had sailings along the west coast of Florida, to New Orleans, down to Key West and Havana.
By 1899 the company had lines from New York to Wilmington, Brunswick, New York to Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Norfolk, New York to the West Indies, from Boston, Providence, and New York to Jacksonville, Florida as well as a St. John River Line. The steamships connected to rail lines in Florida. Frederick Douglas wrote about his dealings with the company in his autobiography. He was trying to establish a steamship line to Haiti.
His mother was Rebecca Pancoast.
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Theodore Ernest Ferris (August 17, 1872 – 1953 was a naval architect and engineer responsible for the "Ferris Designs" used by the US Emergency Fleet Corporation, of the United States Shipping Board, during World War I.
Theodore E. Ferris. It states that Ferris started his career designing vessels for the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Line, prior to World War I. It mentions that he designed the steamer Lenape for the Clyde Steamship Line, which had a cargo capacity of 5,000 tons and entered service in 1913. In the 1920s the Lenape sank in the Hudson River and in November 1925 it was burned. In 1920s, Ferris proposed designs for the Leviathan 2d and the Leviathan 3d, had they been built they would have been the first superliners of the U.S.
Early life
Ferris was born in Stamford, Connecticut the son of Nathaniel Betts and Louise (Keeler) Ferris. He was educated in Stamford and later at the Greenwich Academy, where he took a technical training course. After a period of employment at shipyards on Long Island, he joined the Townsend-Downey Company on Shooters Island and later the firm of Cary Smith & Ferris.
Emergency Fleet Corporation
In 1917, the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) was established by the United States Shipping Board under General Goethals with Ferris as chief architect. His 3,500 deadweight ton "Ferris Design" wooden steamship became the model for the EFC, of which 63 were subsequently built. He also invented a system of steel strapping for fixing the frames of his ships.
Personal life
Ferris married Lois Davis on August 25, 1912. They had two children, Nathaniel James and Theodore Louis Ferris.
Legacy
In his obituary, the New York Times repeated an estimate that US shipyards built over 1,800 ships to his design.
Works
Ferris, Theodore E. (1917). Douglas Fir Ship: Specifications for the Construction of a Standard Wood Steamship. United States Government Publishing Office.
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USS Ozama was a naval mine carrier that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
SS Ozama was built as a commercial cargo ship by the Detroit Ship building Company at Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1916. The U.S. Navy acquired her from the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies Steamship Line on 24 December 1917 for World War I service and commissioned her the same day as USS Ozama with Lieutenant Commander P. E. Crosby, USNRF, in command. Unlike many of the former merchant ships the Navy acquired in 1917 and 1918 for use in the war, Ozama did not receive a Navy identification number (Id. No.).
Fitted out at Norfolk, Virginia, as a naval mine carrier, Ozama cleared Hampton Roads, Virginia, for Scotland early in 1918. On 15 February 1918, she arrived in the Firth of Clyde with a cargo of naval; minelaying equipment to be used on the North Sea Mine Barrage.
On 3 April 1918, Ozama she returned to Norfolk and for the remainder of the war continued to ply the Atlantic Ocean to keep naval mine bases in Scotland supplied with their specialized equipment.
Following the Armistice with Germany that ended the war on 11 November 1918, Ozama supported mine clearance operations in the North Sea.
Ozama returned to Norfolk for the last time in her naval career on 28 January 1919. On 13 February 1919 she was decommissioned and returned to the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies Steamship Line.
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The second USS Kiowa (ID-1842) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
Kiowa was built as the commercial cargo ship SS Kiowa and launched in 1917 by the American Shipbuilding Company at Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. Her design, which included an unusual rig, was based on a Norwegian design known as the Fredrickstad. She was one of the first of what became a large group of standard-type cargo ships constructed on the Great Lakes during World War I.
On 13 or 26 February 1918, the U.S. Navy took control of Kiowa from her owners, the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Line, for use during World War I and assigned her the naval registry identification number (Id. No.) 1842. She was commissioned on 26 February 1918 as USS Kiowa (ID-1842) with Lieutenant Commander A. Hopen in command.
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United War Work Campaign Tampico Wells Acquired By Atlantic, Gulf And West Indies. New York,, April 3.-The Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Line, holding organization of the Mailcry, Clyde, New York and Porto Rico, Ward and other steamship companies, has. acquired controlling interest in a large Tampico oil field, which is to be utilized for providing fuel for ships of these, lines and bulk cargo for transport. , This was announced here today by an official of the company. ,. The property will be operated, it was said, by a company capitalized at $20,,-000,000, to be known as the Atlantic-Gulf Oil Corporation, financed by the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Line, for which purpose a portion of its present cash surplus will be utilized. A fleet of steel tankers, having a carrying capacity of 10,000,000 barrels a year, is to be provided, to. convey the oil to American and foreign ports.
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