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Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier 12 a Hog Islander's Odyssey in World War II Number 304 • wiNter 2018 PowerT HE M AGAZINE OF E NGINE -P OWERED V ESSELS FRO M TShipsHE S T EA M SHI P H IS T ORICAL S OCIE T Y OF A M ERICA SSHSA Ship of the Ye a r 8 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Hoboken’s A Hog Sailing (or U-Boats Ship Fifth Street Islander’s Avoiding) Off New Research, Pier 12 Odyssey The Exiles’ England Part 2 46 In World Line to 1942– War II 24 India 34 1945 40 Thanks to All Who Continue to Support SSHSA December 2016 -December 2017 Fleet Admiral ($50,000+) Admiral ($20,000+) Dibner Charitable Trust of Maritime Heritage Grant Program Massachusetts The Family of Helen & Henry Posner, Jr. Heritage Harbor Foundation The Estate of Mr. Donald Stoltenberg Ms. Mary L. Payne Benefactor ($10,000+) The Champlin Foundation Mr. Richard Rabbett Mr. Thomas C. Ragan Leader ($1,000+) Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Eberle Mr. Ralph S. McCrea Mr. Douglas A. Tilden Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ferguson CAPT and Mrs. James J. 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Young Mr. A. Michael Marzolla Mr. and Mrs. Les Isaacowitz Mr. G. Thomas Tranter n (At top) Engineering officers aboard Fall River Line steamer Plymouth. – Edward O. Clark Collection, SSHSA Archives. PowerTHE MAGAZINE OF THEShips STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MA NIFEST • N u m be r 3 0 4 • w i N t e r 2018 THIS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE has been continuously published by The Steamship Historical SSHSA From Desegregation to Restoration Society of America since first Ship appearing as The Steamboat of the SS COLUMBIA Ye a r Bill of Facts in 1940. THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL by Aimee Bachari......... 8 SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC., (SSHSA) was organized in 1935 as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional historians interested in the history and development of steam navigation, past and present, and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt Lives of the Liners: THE PILOT HOUSE . .4 education corporation. Hoboken’s Fifth Street Pier Q&A WITH by William H. Miller........... 12 STEAMBOAT BILL .....5 IN ADDITION TO POWERSHIps, the SSHSA produces other books and FULL STEAM AHEAD ..7 publications of marine interest, a list of which is available online and A Hog Islander’s Odyssey REGIONALS.......... High Seas ...........53 from the Warwick headquarters. in World War II Mid-Atlantic.........56 by Eric Pearson................ 24 SSHSA MEETINGS are normally New York ...........59 held annually. Several local Overseas ...........61 chapters also meet regularly. New England & Sailing (or Avoiding) ‘‘The Eastern Canada ......63 MEMBERSHIP in SSHSA includes Exiles’ Line’’ to India West Coast..........65 subscriptions to PowerShips, the by Laurence Miller ............. 34 Great Lakes / Seaway ..69 Telegraph, and Ahoy! Dues Southeast & Gulf Ports . 72 are in various classes, beginning at Southwest Pacific .....74 $50.00 for Annual Members. 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