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SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty ship launched. It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore...

Sarah Shelton (1738–1775), was the first wife of Founding Father Patrick Henry, the first Governor of Virginia. Shelton was born and raised in her family's...

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention...

gunboat during the American Civil War SS Patrick Henry, the first World War II Liberty ship launched USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), a ballistic missile submarine...

orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry is credited...

first of these was SS Patrick Henry, launched by President Roosevelt. In remarks at the launch ceremony FDR cited Patrick Henry's 1775 speech that finished...

Shipbuilding program. Among the ships launched was the first Liberty ship, SS Patrick Henry. Some of the merchant ships were subsequently converted to other purposes...

rights movement. Ogden was born in the West Indies and served on the S.S. Patrick Henry as a ship steward. Not much is known about Peter Ogden's early life...

Father Patrick Henry, who is known for his famous "Give me Liberty or give me Death!" speech. Hartless, Eva C. (1977), Sarah Winston Syme Henry, Boston:...

Liberty ship SS Patrick Henry at Bethlehem Steel's Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore. Also launched the same day were the Liberty SS James McKay...

Liberty Fleet Day, with the launching of their first Liberty Ship, SS Patrick Henry. She was the first of an eventual 384 Liberty ships built there, along...

Sarah Winston Syme Henry, the mother of Patrick Henry, was a woman who educated her son and worked for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. Sarah...

shipping in American waters. 27 September: The first "Liberty Ship", the SS Patrick Henry is launched. Liberty Ships will prove to be major parts of the Allied...

is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader. 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. 1942...

mariners killed in 1942. SS E. A. Bryan had a munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, at Port Chicago, California. SS Patrick Henry was built in 4 days, 15...

gunners wounded one man and hit several aircraft carried on the deck of Patrick Henry. No more torpedo attacks were made on the convoy and soon after, Soviet...

condemnation of Lindbergh follows. September 27 – The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore. September 29 – World War II: The first Moscow...

Administration. Retrieved 1 July 2019. Gregory, Mackenzie J. (2014). "Liberty Ship SS Roger B. Taney". Ahoy - Mac's Web Log. Retrieved 11 November 2019. Some crew...

is appointed its first acting leader. The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore. September 28 – WWII: The Drama Uprising...

children westward to Kentucky. Her brother was Patrick Henry, the governor of Virginia. Her sister, Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell, was a Methodist lay leader...