The U.S. Shipping Board (Shipping Board or USSB) was established on April 16, 1917, as an emergency government agency in accordance with the provisions of the Shipping Act of 1916, which was passed by Congress on September 7, 1916. The corporation’s mandate was to “acquire, maintain and operate a fleet of merchant ships to meet the needs of national defense and foreign and domestic commerce.”
Background
By the 1910s, U.S. vessels had been at a disadvantage to foreign ships and the nation’s...
The sad state of the U.S. blue-water merchant marine is threatening necessary Defense Department capabilities and calls for nothing less than a “whole-of-society” approach to its revitalization, reports the Waterways Journal Weekly.
New national maritime strategyThe report, released February 20 by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, is called “Strengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime and Industrial Base,” and its first recommendation is that the country create and implement a new...
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The tug Mississippi has joined the training fleet of Northwestern Michigan College’s Great Lakes Maritime Academy (GLMA) on a leased basis. The vessel is being ..