Number 315 • fall 2020 PowerT HE M AGAZINE OF E NGINE -P OWERED V ESSELS FRO M T ShipsHE S T EA M SHI P H IS T ORICAL S OCIE T Y OF A M ERICA ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Greek Conversions: Daphne & Danae 10 When Ellerman Ships flew the maple leaf 14 Ingalls The Cunard Story exhibit aboard Shipbuilding Queen Mary 40 luxury liner row in the 1950s 46 1946–1961 22 PLUS! SSHSa arriveS iN Home porT! 6 EXPERIenCE THE ACTIon of WORLD WAR II AFLoat! Aboard the Liberty Ship JOH N W. BROW N The SS JO HN W. B the great fleet of over 2,700ROW war-built Liberty Ships and the last operational N is one of the last operating survivors from troopship of World War II. The ship is a maritime museum and a memorial to the shipyard workers who built, merchant mariners who sailed, and the U.S. Navy Watch Our Website Armed Guard who defended the Liberty ships during World War II. The Joh for Our 2021 Cruise W. Bro wn is fully restored and maintained as close as possible to her World Schedule War II configuration. Visitors must be able to walk up steps to board the ship. N H H H H H H H H H H H H These exciting 6 hour day cruises Donate Online period entertainment and flybys (conditions permitting) of wartime aircraft. Tour to Support the on-board museums, crew quarters, bridge and much include more. lunch, See the music magnificent of the 40’s, John Brown 140-ton triple-expansion steam engine as it powers the ship through the water. H H H H H H H H H H H Our 2020 Cruises have been suspended H The Ship Store is check our website, ssjohnbrown.org, or our Facebook page for our upcoming 2021 cruise schedule and news about SS Joh but you're invited to Open: T-shirts, Mugs support to keep the ship operational during this period — please support the N W & More! JOHN W. B . Brown roWN w . We need your our Ship Store at ssjohnbrown.org.ith an online donation or purchase from H DONATE online at: www.ssjohnwbrown.org H For information call: 410-558-0164 Visit our Ship Store at www.ssjohnwbrown.org Project Liberty Ship is a Baltimore based, all volunteer, nonprofit organization. FLoat! AR II A ORLD W PowerTHE MAGAZINE OF THEShips STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA TIon of W CE THE AC ERIen MANIFEST • Number 315 • fall 2020 EXP THIS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE has been continuously published Ingalls Shipbuilding by The Steamship Historical Society of America since first appearing as The Steamboat 1946–1961 bill of facts in 1940 . by Terry Tilton . 22 THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC., (SSHSA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that relies on the generosity of members and friends for support. Founded in 1935 as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional THE PILOT HOUSE . 4 historians interested in the SSHSa arrives FULL STEAM AHEAD . 9 history and development of steam navigation, past and present, and in Home port REGIONALS incorporated in the Commonwealth by Don Leavitt . 6 High Seas . .53 of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt Mid-Atlantic . 57 education corporation . New York . 59 Greek Conversions: SSHSA MEETINGS are normally Overseas . .60 The Sisters Daphne held annually . Several local New England & chapters also meet regularly . & Danae Eastern Canada . .62 by William H . Miller . 10 West Coast . 64 MEMBERSHIP in SSHSA includes Great Lakes / Seaway . 69 subscriptions to powerShips, the Southeast & Gulf Ports . 71 Telegraph, and ahoy! Dues are in various classes, beginning at When Ellerman Ships Southwest Pacific . 74 flew the maple leaf $50.00 for Annual Members. Western Rivers . 77 by James Shaw . 14 FOR FURTHER DETAILS, write: TUGBOATS . .80 Steamship Historical REVIEWS . 83 Society of America, The Cunard Story HEARD ON THE 2500 Post Road, exhibit aboard FANTAIL . 85 Warwick, RI 02886 Queen Mary FROM THE by Kevin M . Anthoney . 40 COLLECTION . 86. Visit our websites ON THE COVER: Our cover features www.sshsa.org a 1940s advertising illustration of an www.shiphistory.org luxury liner row in unamed Ingalls-built, all-welded liner the 1950s combined with their slogan “Ingalls Ships Serve the World ”. ABOVE: The Ingalls- H DONATE online at: www.ssjohnwbrown.org by Laurence Miller . 46 built icebreaker USS Glacier (AGB4) – H For information call: 410-558-0164 Terry Tilton Collection . 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PowerShips fall 2020 • 3 PowerShips EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jim Pennypacker 17 Church St., 2nd Floor, Lambertville, NJ 08530 Email: [email protected] The Pilot House Phone: +1 610-883-7988 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Peter T. Eisele Ingalls Shipbuilding, The Cunard Story, 74 Chatham Street, Chatham, NJ 07928 Email: [email protected] Daphne and Danae and more . Laurence Miller 11321 SW 134th Avenue, Miami, FL 33186 Email: [email protected] hanks to you, SSHSA has bought the building that houses the Ship History CONTRIBUTORS Center (see the official announcement inside from our President, Don William G.T. Barber Ted Blank Charles H. Bogart David M. Boone Leavitt). I’d like to note that our Fifth Annual Ocean Liner Gala will now Peter T. Eisele William A. Fox be available to all virtually on November 7, 2020. The night will be a John A. Fostik Roddy Sergiades Tcelebration of some of the biggest names in transatlantic travel: the Leviathan, the America Donald Leavitt James L. Shaw Mark Shumaker Rich Turnwald and the United States. Register now by texting “sshsa” Julia Winters G. Justin Zizes to (843) 606-5995 or https://event.gives/sshsa EDITORIAL PLANNING COMMITTEE Articles Wanted Jim Pennypacker Andrew Coggins We’re continually looking for Laurence Miller Jim Shuttleworth In This Issue Marifrances Trivelli Matthew Schulte articles for the upcoming issues of James Zatwarnicki, Jr. • In a follow-up to his Fall 2015 article, Terry Tilton ART DIRECTOR PowerShips. If you would like offers an engaging story of the post-World War John Goschke to write an article, send me a note Email: [email protected] II years of Ingalls Shipbuilding and the ships that ([email protected]) describing your ADVERTISING SALES continued to make the company a huge success, Richard L. Barwis, IV article idea and we’ll talk. In addition 674 Fairhaven Street, Palm Bay, FL 32907 including passenger and cargo liners for companies to articles on engine-powered ships of Email: [email protected] such as Delta, Moore-McCormack, Lykes and Phone: +1-321-220-0346 all kinds, we’re interested in articles EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Farrell, icebreakers, oil tankers, merchant ships, on Ocean Liners, Ship Builders, Matthew S. Schulte, M.S. Navy destroyers and nuclear submarines. Email: [email protected] Mechanical Aspects, Ship Models, PRINTING • In Lives of the Liners, William Miller offers an Merchant Marine, Ship Preservation, Perfection Press enlightening history about the Greek conversions Ship Interiors and Memorabilia. Of 1200 Industrial Drive, Logan, IA 51546 SSHSA HEADQUARTERS of the sisters Daphne and Danae. Originally freighters course, we welcome articles on all 2500 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886 built in Britain in 1954–55, they were bought in topics of interest to SSHSA members. Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-401-463-3570 Web: www.sshsa.org, www.shiphistory.org 1972 by the Greek shipping tycoon John G. Carras, SSHSA OFFICERS thoroughly rebuilt as 400-passenger luxury cruise ships and later sold to Italy’s Costa Don Leavitt, President, Baltimore, MD Patrick Dacey, Vice President, Glen Gardner, NJ Cruises. Barry W. Eager, Vice President, Berlin, MA Nicholas Langhart, V.P./Treasurer, Westminster, MA • Kevin M. Anthoney provides a detailed account of the Cunard Story Exhibit aboard the James Zatwarnicki, Jr., Vice President, Hoboken, NJ Queen Mary, which showcases Cunard’s remarkable 179-year history, its relationship with Andrew Coggins, Jr., Secretary, Blacksburg, VA SSHSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS the Queen Mary, its founder’s vision, the ships it inspired and continues to bring forward and Odd Brevik, Ormond Beach, FL their influence on immigration, global maritime policies and technological innovation.