The Ship That Would Not Die

USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas Clipper

Stephen Curley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2011
Texas A & M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60344-427-9 (ISBN)

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Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II—and one of the last five left afloat by war’s end—the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other hot spots in the Pacific theater. After the war, the ship became the SS Excambion , one of the “Four Aces” of American Export Lines: the only fully air-conditioned ships in the world at the time. In 1965, the versatile Excambion underwent yet another transformation—into a floating classroom. Recommissioned as the USTS Texas Clipper , the ship began a third life as a merchant marine training vessel with its home port in Galveston. For the next three decades the Texas Clipper would be home to merchant marine cadets, and by the time it was retired in 1996, it was the oldest active ship in the U.S. merchant marine fleet. Finally, the Texas Clipper , after protracted bureaucratic wrangling, was designated to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef to provide habitat for marine life. In 2007, the ship was towed to its final resting place, seventeen nautical miles off the coast of South Padre Island. Now, 136 feet below the surface, the venerable Texas Clipper lives on as the home to a wide variety of underwater species. Filled not only with meticulously researched technical and historical data about the ship’s construction, service record, crew procedures, and voyages, The Ship That Would Not Die also features lively anecdotes from crew members, passengers, and officers. More than 140 color and black-and-white photos illustrate the ship’s construction, its wide variety of shipboard life, the exacting process of making the Texas Clipper ready to become an artificial reef, and its final sinking in the Gulf of Mexico.

STEPHEN CURLEY is the author of Aggies by the Sea: Texas A&M University at Galveston (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). He holds a PhD from Rice University and is a Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Reihe/Serie	Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
Nachwort	J. Dale Shively
Zusatzinfo	69 color, 48 b&w photos. Line art. Map. Bib. Index.
Verlagsort	College Station
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-60344-427-0 / 1603444270
ISBN-13	978-1-60344-427-9 / 9781603444279
Zustand	Neuware