The ship that would not die [electronic resource] : USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas Clipper / Stephen Curley ; afterword by J. Dale Shively.
Material type: TextSeries: Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 117. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 235 p. :) ill. (some col.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781603444699
- 1603444696
- Texas Clipper (Ship) -- History
- Excambion (Ship) -- History
- Queens (Ship) -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American
- Training-ships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Cargo ships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Warships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 940.54/5973 22
- D774.Q84 C87 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
USS Queens, 1944-1946, an attack transport: serving in the Pacific War and its aftermath -- SS Excambion, 1948-1959, a cargo-passenger liner: plying the Mediterranean trade for the American flag fleet -- USTS Texas Clipper, 1965-1996, a floating classroom: teaching merchant marine cadets -- Afterword: Navigating a sinking ship, 1996-2007: from bureaucracy to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico / J. Dale Shively -- Appendix: Queens/Excambion/Texas Clipper timeline.
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