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. McNamara CAPT and Mrs. Terry Tilton, Amica Companies Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hughes CAPT & Mrs. Roland R. Parent USN (Ret.) Mr. Charles T. Andrews J. Aron Charitable Foundation CAPT Dave Pickering Mr. Andy Tyska Mr. Jason Arabian Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Kolb Mr. Richard Rabbett Mr. Peregrine White Mr. James Berwind Mr. Nicholas Langhart Mr. Stephen S. Roberts Mr. Douglas E. Bryan Mr. Don Leavitt Mr. Kenneth E. Schaller Mr. Barry W. Eager Mr. H. F. Lenfest Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shuttleworth Mr. Thomas Donoghue Ms. Susan E. Linda Mr. Dwight D. Quella Sponsor ($250+) Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Lockhart Mr. and Mrs. Charles Royce Mr. Ronald Amos Mr. Andrew W. Edmonds Mr. Jeff MacKlin Mr. Paul T. Rudolph Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Arini Exxon Mobil Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jack Madden Mr. Todd J. F. Schaumloffel Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Bellafiore Mr. Raymond H. Fredette Frank Mauran Schneider Electric Mr. Daniel Blanchard Mr. Henry H. 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Donnell Mr. Keith A. Lewis Mr. Henry Posner III and Ms. Anne Molloy Contributor ($100+) CDR Andrew O. Coggins, Jr., Mr. Michael Fisher Mr. Jack McBride Ms. Kinda Priestley USN (Ret.) Mr. Gregory C. Gettle Mr Kenneth Meaney Mr. Arnold Rathmann Mr. Gregory E. Abbott Nicholas H. Cooper Mr. Alan Gordon and Mrs. Julia Mr. Jeffrey Miller Mr. Allan C. Reed Mr. George W. Adams Ms. Carol Cooper Ramos-Roth Mr. Wayne C. Miller Mr. Robert H. Savarese LCDR. Peter E. Baci, USNR (Ret) Mr. William F. Cosgrove Mr. Robert L. Gray III Mr. Charles W. Moorman Mr. William O. Schlotter, Jr. Mr. David C. Bailey, Jr. Mr. Patrick Dacey Mr. John C. Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Morgan Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Schoenwald Mr. David A. Bavlitschko Mr. David J. Davila Mr. Doug Hart Mrs. Harry Morgan Mr. R. Norman Shaddick Mr. Henry H. Baxter Mr. Douglas Dease Captain Brian H. Hope Mr. John A. Morgan Mr. Mark Shumaker Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Beaulieu Mr. Christopher DeCamps Mr. Thomas Horsfall Rev. Bart R. Muller Mr. Britton C. Smith Mr. Steven Bienenfeld Mr. Thomas Diedrich Mr. Tom Jordens Mr. William G. Muller Mr. Mark G. Southern Mr. Philip Blauvelt CAPT Robertson Dinsmore Mr. Derek Kendall Ms. Nori Muster Mr. Jerry Stewart Mr. A. Pierce Bounds Mr. Steven Draper Mr. Bruce Kendrick National Grid Mr. Tom Stone Mr. John D. Brandner, Jr. Ms. Astrid M. Drew Mr. Robert J. Kimtis Mr. Mark J. Nemergut Mr. David Sylvestre Mr. and Mrs. Matthew and Mr. Michael Dugan Mr. Alan G. Konzelman Mr. Brian L. Norden CAPT Eric Takakjian Tracey Brennan Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards Mr. Earl Krantz CW4 (Ret.) Samuel R. Ohmacht Mr. Craig Thompson Mr. James G. Brown Ms. Kathy Farnsworth and Mr. Mr. Thomas Lavin Mr. James Onions Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Weinbaum Mr. Todd Buckley John Teichmoeller Mr. Clayton E. Leroue Mr. Hollis S. Paige Mr. Hubert Wicki Mr. Andrew J. Burger Mr. David Fein Mr. Bruce Lockhart Mr. Paul Paisley Mr. Robert Zinman Mr. and Mrs. Donald Caldera Dr. Jerry Fingerut Mr. Gary Maehl Mr. Peter Pare CAPT George H. Fisher Mr. Frank Mallalieu Mr. Frank H. Peacock Ronald and Linda Beck Ms. Patricia Hartle Ms. Catherine Covell Orloff Mr. Gary C. Raffaele Mr. Loring M. Lawrence Friend (Up to $100) Mr. Vincent J. Budesa IBM Corporation Ms. Kay D. Schloff Mr. and Mrs. William Tatewosian Mr. Stephen Craig Mr. Albert K. Antrobus CAPT Stephen Busch Matching Gifts Program Mr. Robert A. Bucher Mr. Roger A. Angelo Capt. and Mrs. Earl E. Mr. Joe Attura Captain Phillip B. Bush II, Mr. Samuel L. James, Jr. Ms. Tonya L. Ricketts Mr. Douglas Blount Maxfield , Jr. Mr. Rick Brown USN (Ret.) Mr. Leonard Kaisalahti Ms. Jean Wort Mr. Donald A. Hunt Mr. Michael Mulligan Mr. James Cafferky, Sr. Caterpillar Foundation CAPT Ronald J. Meiczinger Captain and Mrs. Lawrence Mr. Alex Macintyre Mr. Raisuke Numata Ms. Marjorie Dovman Mr. Thomas C. Chadwick Ms. Diana Moraco E. Worters Mr. Donald Martin Reverend Donald E. Potter Mr. Michael P. Joynt Charter Oak Credit Union Mr. John Paul Mr. William L. Baxter Mr. John Merriam Mr. W. Bruce Redpath Mr. Frederic N. Phinney Mr. Arthur S. Clarke III Mr. Colin R. Revill Mr. Terry B. Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Riddervold Mr. Gregory Stavros Mr. Victor Stanescu Dr. Robert W. Dellers Mr. Edward J. Ryan Ms. Lulu Gmoser Mr. G. W. Hutton Mr. John Trtek Mr. Parker Williamson Mr. Steve Donohue Mr. Donald H. Smith Mr. Norman Grant Mr. Thomas Berlin Giving Assistant Mr. John C. Sauter Mr. Arild Johan Ellingsen Mr. John S.W. Spofford Mr. David Hill Mr. Francis Birchard Mr. George Anthony Damiano Ms. Alissa Cafferky Mr. John David Ferguson Mr Joseph Sturges IV Ms. June Sherry Ingram Mr. Alan Cullen Mr. John Sutka Dr. William B. Cogar Mr. and Mrs. John Goschke Capt. John P. Wellington Mr. Peter Kirkegaard Mr. Robert Hlavaty Mr. William Wooding Ms. Kyle Ingrid Johnson Mr. Alan Graves Mr. Peter T. 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. 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