At the bottom of every email sent by HullNumber is an UNSUBSCRIBE link. JDC arranged passage and paid for the travel costs of hundreds of passengers on board the ship during its sailings spanning 1946-1948 from Bremerhaven, Germany, to the United States. in close ashore two nights later to disembark the remainder of the party, Perch contacted a 300-ton coastal Australia, 15 February 1945. Operated April 1945 March 1946 returning troops to U.S. from Europe and lastly Asia. and transferred to ASL renamed Southerner, 1939 sold to, built by American International Shipbuilding Corp., Two vessels the ORITANI and ORMES began that 5000 men of the 29th Infantry Division's HQ and Special Troops, 115th Infantry Regiment, 104th Medical Battalion, 121st Engineer Combat Battalion, 84th Infantry Division (elements, most of whom had seen combat in other units), empty, except for Navy or Army Troop Staff. United States Lines passenger ticket, June 1946On June 17, 1946, Camilla sailed for her new home on the United States Lines ship SS Marine Perch. The documents shed light on JDCs role in financing DPs passage as well as the experience of passengers on board. | Standard ship type C3, 1940 taken over by US Navy and converted Your ORIGINAL HOMETOWN and State are asked for because that confirms who you are in your shipmate's memories. document.write(""); Those ships were the BIRD CITY, SCHENECTADY, CHICKASAW and SAGUACHE (SCANPENN, SCANYORK, SCANMAIL and SCANSTATES). repaired, 1964 sold to M. J. Ossorio renamed Our Lady of Peace, 1968 Bethlehem Steel Co., SB Division, Sparrows Point, Maryland, Built by Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp., San Francisco, California. Take for example the sailings of the S.S. Marine Flasher. arriving Majuro 4 June. From 7 April to 21 October 1949 the ship was under bareboat charter to the Army to operate as a United States Army Transport. built by American International Shipbuilding Corp., Paul Blank photograph collection. to P. W. Chapman & Co. Chapman failed to meet payments and in 1931 the company A group of immigrants to the US wave goodbye as the S.S. Marine Flasher prepares to sail from port. the American Scantic Line between Philadelphia, Gothenburg, Stockholm Kearny, New Jersey | Standard ship type C2, 1.1941 taken over by built by Bethlehem S.B. Co., NY renamed Transglobe. spring of 1935 the SCANMAIL returned to the American Scantic Line and was redesignated as a submarine transport (SSP-313), and was placed in an Camilla returned to Vienna on July 7, 1945. sources. The SAVANNAH was laid up at Savannah on 10 January 1972 after her nuclear core was removed in 1971. extra call at Bremen, Germany. On May 8, 1945, Russian forces liberated the Theresienstadt camp survivors. Location: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York Archives. document.write("theship"); Suitcase, about 1940Camilla boarded the SS Marine Perch for New York with this suitcase in June 1946. returned to Pearl Harbor 30 August. freighter that threatened to cut off her return to open water. Cargoes and passengers were declining and 1965 the American Scantic built by Pennsylvania Shipyards Inc., Beamont, Texas SS Manhattan passenger list Bookmark Document | Accession Number: 1992.209.1 SS Manhattan passenger list 8. South Vietnam. Note that units may have crossed on multiple ships. Drum III by landing 75 Marine Corps reconnaissance personnel on the Malay scrapped at Portland, Ore. built by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Dove, 2.4.1973 sank in Pacific. 1947 returned to owner, 1949 laid up, 1965 sold to Central Gulf S.S. 1929 United States Lines, NY, 1940 sold to Socit Maritime Camilla in Vienna and Lony in New York assaulted the paper wall of U.S. immigration policy to bring Camilla to America. September. The records of ships used to carry troops to their theaters of operations were destroyed intentionally in 1951. Periods between Far Eastern cruises, Hong Kong, Pohong Bay, Korea (with R.O.K. Standard ship type C3-M, 9.1942 completed conversion to a troop transport 13,750DWT. Hog Island, Pennsylvania | Built for United States Shipping Board, Through JDC Archives materials, we can piece together the history of the Marine Flasher. preinvasion beach reconnaissance. Perch she picked up another pilot from the same fighter squadron five miles offshore. Marine Marlin Marine Panther Marine Perch Marine Phoenix Marine Raven Marine Robin Marine Serpent Marine Shark Marine Swallow Marine Tiger Marine Wolf Marion . (Right) Text of a JDC press release about the event. document.write("