ports. In 1922, the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. was set up as a separate company, owned by the Lykes Brothers. The seven brothers had been trading cotton...
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line (Lykes Brothers Steamship Company), cattle and meat processing, banking (First Florida Bank) and Lykes Insurance Company. In the 1930s, Lykes Bros...
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SS Cape May (T-AKR-5063) (redirect from MV Almeria Lykes (1972))
hull SS Almeria Lykes, ON 536671, IMO 7205958, under MARAD contract (MA 241), for commercial use with the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company. She was laid...
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company took the first contract in 1976 and it operated until it was transferred to Lykes Brothers steamship company and renamed the SS Charles Lykes...
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USS Pollux (AKS-4) (redirect from SS Nancy Lykes)
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearney, New Jersey as SS Nancy Lykes for Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, 2 October 1941; launched 5 February 1942; acquired by...
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USS Libra (redirect from SS Jean Lykes)
laid down as Jean Lykes by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, N.J., under contract for Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, Galveston, Texas;...
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USS Hamul (redirect from SS Doctor Lykes)
Shipbuilding & Drydock Company of Kearney, New Jersey. Launched in April 1940 she was delivered to the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company of New Orleans and...
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Louise Lykes was a Type C2-F ship built in 1941 at Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey. She sailed for the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company out of...
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then leased to Lykes Brothers steamship company and renamed the SS Tyson Lykes on February 23, 1979. On October 20 the Lykes Brothers purchased the ship...
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Turbine Company, Trenton, New Jersey. Almeria Lykes was a Type C3 ship built for the USMC. She was placed under the management of the Lykes Brothers Steamship...
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