Shipcards

How did we forget about ships for so long? Here are a couple more to give this thread a bump.

I wonder if Skinner's Dry Dock is still around in Baltimore.



And here's a RPPC of the USS West Virginia, mailed in Dec 1942. This shot had to have been taken more than a year earlier, as the West Virginia was one of the dreadnoughts that was sunk in shallow water during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was refloated and repaired, but didn't return to service until 1944.

Lots of ships.

I'll bring a few more modern to the collection:

Mark Twain: July 1955 – present. On the Rivers of America.
https://duchessofdisneyland.com/dis...ip-columbia/

MS Norgoma was a Canadian package freighter and passenger ferry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Norgoma

The steamship William G. Mather is a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter now restored as a museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Wi...ather_(1925)

I picked up a nice circa-1900 PMC depicting the Steamer Charles MacAlester, a tourist vessel that ran along the Delaware River between Wilmington and Mt. Vernon.

Here are some early naval picture postcards including an error on the USS Pennsylvania calling it Battleship Pennsylvania actually a cruiser. Also Phot cards, early US and German Submarine Postcards, Great White Fleet cards Including The Maine, etc. Hope you enjoy.

stampdorkman - nice early sub cards. thanks.


"Piracy continued to flourish along the South China coast with 51 major cases taking place in the interwar years. The most devastating of these came in 1914 when the SS Tai On was burnt to the water's edge by pirates thwarted by the stout resistance put up the ship's crew. Over 200 lives were lost in the blaze."
https://zolimacitymag.com/hong-kong...-generation/



"The Leader" May 30,1914. Sydney australia

patg23 that is a fascinating story to go along with the photo postcard. great post.

Here's a WWI launching at a Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin shipyard of a ship christened "Sturgeon Bay". It shortly thereafter became a floating resupply boat off the east coast of the United States for the remainder of that war.

Great Post! Here area few of mine.

Those are all nice, TIA -- thanks for posting. I've got one of the Solana locomotive ferry very much like yours. That must have been something to see!

Thanks GregAlex! I agree the Solano would have been a sight. I especially like your U.S.S West Virginia and Stampdorkman's submarine boat shark and porpoise..... Very cool!

Again dormant too long!

The "Solano" was before my time, but I do remember taking the car ferry from Benicia to Martinez when I was a boy. It stopped operation on Sept. 14 1962 when the new Benicia-Martinez bridge was opened to replace the last automotive ferry service in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you didn't want to take the ferry, you had to drive to Vallejo to go over the Carquinez bridge, then backtrack.

Back to ships.
Three odds&ends ones I like.
Thanks,
pat

Foreign "Man of War" entering the Golden Gate, S.F. Calif. (~1910-15)
(Took a while to I.D. it.)
General Baquedano was the first training ship of the Chilean Navy ordered specifically for this purpose.
Launched: 5 July 1898 Decommissioned:15 December 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile...edano_(1898)



The second USS Monterey was the sole Monterey-class monitor. Laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, 20 December 1889, she was launched 28 April 1891, sponsored by Miss Kate C. Gunn. She was commissioned 13 February 1893. Decommissioned 27 August 1921

Can't imagine crossing the Pacific with that low freeboard!
(Found with my great uncles papers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monterey_(BM-6)


SS Cristoforo Colombo was an Italian ocean liner built in the 1950s, sister ship of the SS Andrea Doria.
Launched in 1953. Retired in 1973.
Picked it from an ebay dollar listing. Thought it looked nice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cr...foro_Colombo

Similar to my post of 12/9/18, pg 5 of this thread,

https://goscf.com/t/22899&whichpage=5#564640

is this RPPC showing one of Pacific Coast's S. S. Co. steamers at Taku Glacier in Alaska, postmarked with a RPO cancel of the line that superseded Eureka & Scotia, supposedly on Sep 29, 1911.
A bit off subject, but for whatever reason, the new post marker arrived some time in 1913, (two years later) as Jan 7,1913 is the latest Eureka & Scotia RPO cancel I have found so far, while the earliest Arcata & Elinor RPO I have is Jul 11 1913. That late shipment is possibly why Arcata & Elinor RPO's are rated as IVs.
This card is postmarked Mar 17 1914, 5 months before the line became Arcata & Dyerville RPO.

Postcard 1953, lettercard 1934, same ship!
RMS Scythia - sent about 19 years apart.

A new addition, Southern Pacific's Golden Gate Ferry, F/S Mendocino. Unused.

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