Hog Islanders is the slang for ships built to Emergency Fleet Corporation designs number 1022 and 1024. These vessels were cargo and troop transport ships...
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slices of bread. This became known as the "Hog Island" sandwich; hence, the "hoagie". Fort Mifflin Hog Islander Hog Island Cranes Netzlof, Robert T. (7 March...
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Look up hog island in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hog Island may refer to: Hog Island (Tasmania) Former name of Paradise Island Hog Island (North...
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production mirrored (albeit on a much larger scale) the manufacture of "Hog Islander" and similar standardized ship types during World War I. The immensity...
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SS City of Flint (1919) (category Hog Islanders)
was a cargo ship of a type known colloquially as a Hog Islander, due to it being built at the Hog Island Shipyard, Philadelphia by American International...
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USS Wright (AV-1) (category Hog Islanders)
longer used. Originally the unnamed "hull no. 680", the ship was laid down at Hog Island, Pennsylvania by the American International Shipbuilding Corporation...
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SS Robin Moor (category Hog Islanders)
was a Design 1022 Hog Islander, built by the American International Shipbuilding Corporation at its emergency shipbuilding yard at Hog Island, just outside...
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Type R ship T1 tanker T2 tanker T3 tanker Liberty ship Victory ship Hog Islander U.S. Merchant Marine Academy shipbuildinghistory.com shipbuildinghistory...
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USS Sirius (AK-15) (category Hog Islanders)
built in 1918 and 1919 by the American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Pennsylvania as SS Saluda . She was acquired from the War Shipping...
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USS Samaritan (category Hog Islanders)
USS Chaumont (AP-5). USS Chaumont, one of twelve 13,400-ton (displacement) Hog Island Type B (Design 1024) transports laid down in November 1918 as SS Shope...
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