MuseumShip Blog

On 19 November 1895, 'Whaleback' ship SS Frank Rockefeller 's keel was laid at the American Steel Barge Company (ASB) at their yard in Superior, Wisconsin. She would be renamed 'South Park' in 1927, and finally 'Meteor' in 1942, when she was sold to the Cleveland Tanker Company, and converted to a tanker. It was at this time that she obtained the name Meteor, as Cleveland Tanker named their vessels after celestial bodies.
Museum ship at Superior Public Museums: Fairlawn, SS Meteor, Firehouse & Police Museum, Superior, WI

75 years ago today, on 18 November 1950, Dutch ocean-going tug Holland was laid down at Ferus Smit Shipyards, Westerbroek, Netherlands
Zeesleepboot Holland, Harlingen, Netherlands

28 years ago today, on 17 November 1997, Liberty ship SS John W. Brown was listed on the National Register for Historic Places
SS John W. Brown (Project Liberty Ship), Baltimore, MD

On 19 November 1938, Fireboat Fire Fighter was commissioned with the New York City Fire Department, Engine 57 at Pier 1 in the Battery, which would later be organized as Marine Unit 1.
Fireboat Fire Fighter, Greenport, NY

On 16 November 1989, HNLMS Mercuur (A-856) was struck from the Dutch Naval Register.
She was built as AM-483 at Peterson Builders Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI in 1953, and transferred to the Netherlands as 'Onverschrokken' (M 886) (Renamed Mercuur and reclassified A-856, 11 May 1973)
Now a museum ship in Vlissingen, Netherlands.