Word: steamships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition to this opportunity, there are positions waiting for men at the Texas Steamship Company of Bath, Me., the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, and the L. H. Shattuck Shipbuilding Company. All of these plants are now engaged in building certain quotas of Wooden ships as a part of the new emergency fleet of the merchant marine...
...Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching...
...official cablegram has been received by Herbert H. White '93, manager of the Harvard Surgical Unit and the British Military Hospital Contingent, stating that the steamship Andania, carrying the University contingent under the direction of Dr. Hugh Cabot '94, has arrived safely in England. On account of the strictness of the British War Office the port of landing was not announced, but the cablegram stated that all the members of the party arrived safely, and were proceeding to London. The members of the unit, which is composed of graduates of the Medical School, will go directly from London...
...Eaves Steamship Agency reports that the steamer Chicago of the French Line arrived in Bordeaux yesterday. The Eaves Agency has not received official word of the Chicago's arrival, but they believe the Chicago is now in Bordeaux because no word has been received to the contrary. Thirty-three members of the University and 32 men from other colleges and universities throughout the country, went to France on the Chicago to enlist in the American Ambulance Service. The ship left New York on Monday, February 17, and was probably convoyed across. She passed through the submarine danger zone...
...Chauvenet '18, of Boston, will sail on the steamship Chicago from New York today for France to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service on the western front. Chauvenet was a member of the fencing team last winter...