J. H. Winchester & Company
{{Short description|Former US Shipping Company}}
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| industry = Shipping
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- J. H. Winchester
- Winchester Noyes
- J. Barston Smull
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J. H. Winchester & Company was founded by James Henry Winchester (1824–1913) in New York City in 1856 (incorporated in 1913). J. H. Winchester & Company was a cargo agent for the United States Shipping Board post World War I, in the 1920s. Winchester raised and born in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, on June 4, 1824. He moved to the United States in 1831 and settled in Eastport, Maine. Winchester completed the United States naturalized prossess on July 7, 1845, and became a US citizen. He moved to New York and became a ship captain. In New York became a partner in two brigantine sailing ships, one the Mary Celeste. The Mary Celeste was found hastily abandoned in 1872 between the Azores and Portugal. The abandonment is still a mystery today.{{cite book|last= Begg|first= Paul|title= Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the Sea|publisher= Pearson Education Ltd|year= 2007|location= Harlow, Essex|isbn= 978-1-4058-3621-0}}The Liberty Ships of World War II, By Greg H. Williams
James Henry Winchester died in 1913 and Winchester Noyes became the J. H. Winchester & Company president. Noyes was born in Brooklyn on March 14, 1878. He became an ensign in the United States Navy on April 3, 1917, and departed the Navy in 1918. He ran the J. H. Winchester & Company during World War II and died in 1954.
J. Barston Smull joined J. H. Winchester & Company in 1907 a vice president, be was the vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.Marine Engineering & Shipping Age, Volume 26, page 639
World War II
J. H. Winchester & Company fleet of ships were used to help the World War II effort. During World War II J. H. Winchester & Company operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II J. H. Winchester & Company was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. J. H. Winchester & Company operated Liberty ships and Victory ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its J. H. Winchester & Company crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.[http://www.usmm.org/wsa/operators.html World War II United States Merchant Navy]{{Cite web|url=https://www.armed-guard.com/item07.html|title=Sea Lane Vigilantes|website=www.armed-guard.com|access-date=2022-06-26|archive-date=2022-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531045847/https://www.armed-guard.com/item07.html|url-status=dead}}World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD [https://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html#:~:text=There%20were%20three%20basic%20training,California%3B%20and%20Gulfport%2C%20Mississippi.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514224645/https://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html#:~:text=There%20were%20three%20basic%20training,California%3B%20and%20Gulfport%2C%20Mississippi. |date=2022-05-14 }}
Ships
= Ships =
= Liberty ships operated for World War II =
- J. H. Daniel Carroll {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsD.html|title=LibShipsD|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Barbara Frietchie {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibshipsB.html|title=LibshipsB|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Telfair Stockton {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsT.html|title=LibShipsT|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Joel Chandler Harris * {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsJo.html|title=LibShipsJo|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- John Bell 27.8.43 Torpedoed and sunk by U.410 off Sardinia at 37.15N 08.24E
- Alexander Mitchell {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibshipsA.html|title=LibshipsA|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Andreas Honcharenko
- William L. Yancey {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsW.html|title=LibShipsW|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- William H. Kendrick
- Gus W. Darnell 23.11.44 Damaged by Japanese air attack off Samar Island, Philippines. CTL.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsG.html|title=LibShipsG|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- James J. O'Kelly {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsJ-Ji.html|title=LibShipsJ|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- SS T. A. Johnston
- SS Ransom A. Moore
- SS Charles H. Marshall
- SS William A. Graham
= Victory ships operated =
- SS Bowling Green Victory {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsB.html|title=vicshipsB|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Marshall Victory {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsM.html|title=vicshipsM|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Petersburg Victory {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsP.html|title=vicshipsP|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Winchester Victory {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsT.html|title=vicshipsT|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Haverford Victory {{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsH.html|title=vicshipsH|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}
- Crater-class cargo ship:
- USS Adhara
= Post war Liberty ships =
See also
{{commons category multi|Liberty ships|Victory ships}}
References
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