SS Pennsylvanian was a cargo ship built in 1913 for the American- Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. Pennsylvanian was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the canal when it opened in August 1914. During World War I she was requisitioned by the U.S. Navy and commissioned as USS Pennsylvanian (ID-3511) in September 1918, but renamed two months later to USS Scranton (pictured). She carried cargo and animals to France, and returned American troops after the Armistice in 1918. After her Navy service ended in 1919, her original name of Pennsylvanian was restored and she resumed relatively uneventful cargo service for her original owners over the next twenty years. Early in World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration, and shipped cargo on New York – Caribbean routes and transatlantic routes. In mid-July 1944, Pennsylvanian was scuttled as part of the breakwater for one of the Mulberry artificial harbors built to support the Normandy Invasion.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1461:
Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in Yorkshire, England, the largest battle in the Wars of the Roses up until that time with approximately 20,000 casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton
1882:
The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus
1969:
The New People's Army (flag pictured), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army
1974:
A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang, now known as the Terracotta Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
1981:
Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the first running of the London Marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Marathon
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
otorhinolaryngology: (medicine) The study of diseases of the ear, nose and throat. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otorhinolaryngology
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sunlight's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen. --R. S. Thomas https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas
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