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#OnThisDay in 1940, the Veendam left New York on her last crossing to Rotterdam before being seized by the Germans. The Veendam was a 15, 450 gross ton passenger liner built in 1922 for Holland-Amerika by Harland & Wolff in Glasgow. She had passenger accommodation for 262-1st, 436-2nd 1,200-3rd class. Her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to New York started on April 18, 1923 and she continued this service until leaving New York on her last crossing to Rotterdam on March 30, 1940. In May 1940, she sustained fire damage at Rotterdam and was seized by the Germans and used as an accommodation ship for submarine crews at Gdynia and Hamburg. After the war she was reconditioned at Amsterdam in 1946 and given accommodation for 223-1st and 363-tourist class passengers, she resumed Rotterdam - New York sailings on February 21, 1947. Her final voyage on this service was on October 30, 1953 and she was then scrapped at Baltimore. Image: Poster for Holland-Amerika line featuring the ship Veendam advertising services between Rotterdam and New York via Boulogne and Southampton. The ocean liner is illustrated under sail and centered, with a stylized map in the background highlighting New York and the Statue of Liberty. Stephen Barrett Chase Collection, SSHSA Archives. See more than 200 digitized posters from this collection at bit.ly/ChasePosters. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqatGGjM-9w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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SSHSA Archivist Astrid Drew will give a talk on immigration to Providence on board the Fabre Line on April 1st at the Rhode Island Genealogical Society - RIGS meeting at the Weaver Library in East Providence Rhode Island. The meeting will be held from 12:30-3:00 p.m. You can tune in at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85398919321. You can learn more about immigration to Providence in this free lesson plan: https://shiphistory.org/2017/07/10/immigration-to-providence/. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYHYfvMLe2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Our upcoming episode of Ship History Radio will begin a series of occasional conversations with our Archives Department who will discuss FIC, or found in collections, and backlog. If you haven't yet listened to our other episodes, visit https://rss.com/podcasts/shiphistoryradio/ to catch up. You can also listen on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Audible or wherever you listen to your podcasts. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqS81RBDZ1A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Check out this common core standards-aligned lesson plan that uses a film from our program SHIPS: https://shiphistory.org/2022/01/10/immigration-then-now/ Learning through oral history and primary sources, students will compare early immigration via steamship with immigration today. Image: Brigitte Bentele (left) with her mother and sisters look at the Statue of Liberty upon their arrival to the U.S. from Germany on board the SS United States in 1956. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Bentele. #WomensHistoryMonth #shiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLey02s5XJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Comic fanatics and shipsters unite! Check out the QE2 in pop culture as Super-Skrull punches his way through the hull of the QE2! "All This and the QE2," Marvel Issue # 62 Oct 1977. Part 2 of 2. Guest-starring Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel. Script by Chris Claremont. At the hands of the Super-Skrull, the Amazing Spider-Man is down and the Human Torch is out. Now the powerful skrull storms on board the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship and steals the cavourite crystal! However, Carol Danvers happens to be on the passenger list...and another chapter in the eternal battle between the Skrulls and the Kree begins! It's a terrific clash on board the QE2 as Ms. Marvel and the web-slinger fight to the finish vs. the Super-Skrull! (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIy8THst6G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Doris Whitman Green (1908-2006) became the first female member of the Society at its second meeting on August 25, 1940 when it was decided that ladies would be eligible for membership on an equal basis with men. She served as the New England editor for Steamboat Bill for more than 30 years and as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Southern New England Chapter for 10 years. In 2005, she was the recipient of SSHSA's H. Graham Wood Award for Distinguished Service. #WomensHistoryMonth #shiphistory Images: Doris Green and members of SSHSA at a meeting at the Mariner's Museum in 1946. An SSHSA meeting with Doris Green in attendance at Mariner's in 1966. Doris Green, in babushka, onboard Mark Twain, Greenwich, CT, January 1975. Mrs. Green pictured here 4th from right, on New Shoreham, on Connecticut River, August 1971. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGPph1M1FX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This image of the Polish Ocean Line's Stefan Batory was taken at Pier 40 in New York on March 20, 1971. Braun Brothers Collection, SSHSA Archives. See more than 3,000 digitized images from this collection at bit.ly/BraunBrothersCollection. #OnThisDay #shiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBMimMsbQB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Anchor Line of Glasgow, Scotland often played upon the lure of returning to the old country for Irish Americans in their posters. Emigration was a key market for the line, which had a port of call in Moville on the northern coast of Ireland. The Anchor Line offered a cheap, no-frills service, and the ships of the 1870s like the Victoria, Anchoria, and Devonia gained a poor reputation partly due to the reports of emigrant voyages. The most famous being Robert Louis Stevenson's account in Notes of an Amateur Emigrant which recalled his experience on the Devonia in 1879. He described the descent into steerage as "an adventure that required some nerve. The stench was atrocious; each respiration tasted in the throat like some horrible kind of cheese..." The City of Rome was the Anchor Line's first high-class liner. You can see a beautiful lithograph of the ship in our Virtual Museum exhibit The Vincent M. Love Collection at https://shiphistory.org/steamship-city-of-rome/. #stpatricksday #shiphistory #immigration https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp46XqRuSnU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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For #WomensHistoryMonth, we will be sharing stories of Past Presidents, Members, and Board Members. Today, we honor Kathy Farnsworth who joined SSHSA in 1974. She served 9 years on our Board of Directors including 3 as President. Kathy and her husband John included SSHSA in their wills as part of the Fellowship League because, as John put it, “The Society is involved in many areas of change. For example, while I miss the library/archive in Baltimore, I realize there are new and more effective way of providing information and these things require financial support.” Images: Passing the gavel from SSHSA outgoing President Roger Mabie to Incoming President Kathy Farnsworth. Kathy waving as people disembark from Annual Meeting cruise around New York Harbor aboard South Street Seaport Museum’s Andrew Fletcher ferry. From the 1987 SSHSA Annual Meeting held in Baltimore when Kathy was presented an award for her service as outgoing president with new president David Crockett at the podium. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2XImKMUtK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This image of Cunard's Carmania was taken on March 15, 1969 at Port Everglades, Florida. Braun Brothers Collections, SSHSA Archives. See more than 3,000 digitized images from this collection at bit.ly/BraunBrothersCollection. #OnThisDay #shiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0U0gXsgIX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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On March 14, 1926, the French Line's Ile de France as launched. Image: Broadside cutaway illustration of the French Line steamship Ile de France. Stephen Barrett Chase Collection, SSHSA Archives. See more posters from this collection at bit.ly/ChasePosters. #OnThisDay #shiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxnbQUMsDW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Have you signed up for our newsletter yet? Visit https://www.sshsa.org/connect/newsletters.html to sign up and stay up to date on all things #shiphistory. Image: An informal portrait of the crew of Boston-Provincetown boat Dorothy Bradford, c. 1935. Acores Collection, SSHSA Archives https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvQ-NmMfCG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Production is underway on the new theme for our SHIPS video program - trade! Our first film on this topic will feature an interview with Board Member Doug Tilden on the history of ocean shipping and the rise of containerization. Check out the films and accompanying podcast episodes for the previous theme - leisure at https://shiphistory.org/ships-transport/. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnaWWrMVzk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

EDUCATORS! You can now follow our lesson plans on Pinterest! Pinterest is a great way to keep track of FREE lesson plans and link to great content – like the lesson plans you’ll find on shiphistory.org for PreK-College! Our lesson plans are for STEAM subjects and many are Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards aligned. You can also share the lesson straight to your Google classroom with a click of a button. Please follow us at https://www.pinterest.com/steamshiphistory/ (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpk0xoZskpO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This #internationalwomensday SSHSA would like to recognize the work of Claire (Koch) Tholl (1926-1995). She was a professional naval draftsman, cartographer, architectural historian, and prolific author. Tholl was an early member of the Steamship Historical Society of America in order to remain connected to her lifelong passion for ship history, particularly the Hudson River Line. A passion likely influenced early in life by ocean liner travel with her parents as a child. She sailed March 1936 on the Monarch of Bermuda and February 1937 on Prince Henry. The U.S.S. Ling Submarine in Hackensack, New Jersey earned a place on the Register of Historic Places in 1978 because of her research. Educated in engineering and naval designing at Stevens Institute of Technology, she earned an architecture degree from Copper Union in 1947. She worked as a draftsman during World War II at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida. She was later hired as draftsman at Sparkman & Stephens. Freelance work provided an intellectual outlet while raising her family in the ‘50s and ‘60s when trying to “have it all” wasn’t yet a professional female ambition. She developed into a skilled technical illustrator, cartographer, and architectural photographer. The Hackensack, New Jersey local paper The Record featured her in an article titled “Housewife Historian” yet failed to adequately credit her education, professional experience, artistic talent, and drive for historic preservation. Her survey work between 1979 - 1980 ensured the preservation of more than 200 New Jersey stone houses. Bergen County Historical Society created the trustee emeritus title specifically for her. Rockland County recognized her as Woman of the Year for her cartography work. The Claire Koch Tholl Collection was donated to the Steamship Historical Society of America in 1998 by her son Robert Tholl and comprises clothing, souvenirs, photo albums, a notebook, and ephemera related to passenger steamships in the Hudson River Day Line. Books and periodicals, including back issues of Steamboat Bills, document the line's history. The Hudson River Maritime Museum holds a collection of her postcards and photos. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiLYUUsQJO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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GOING TO SEA WITH CUNARD by Bill Miller A steward who had served on the sea for a very long time once told me that to work for Cunard in the 1950s, just after the Second World War, was like working for the Bank of England. It was immensely prestigious. There was no better British shipping line to serve aboard. Liverpool-born Robert Welding, now living in Australia and long since retired from the sea, got an apprenticeship with Cunard in 1959. He was sixteen at the time, and the salary was $25 a month. “I was so fortunate. Cunard was top of the class,” he said. “They were the creme de le creme. There was no better company for a career at sea. It was expected that I would become a top cook or even head chef.” ... You can read more by purchasing single issues of PowerShips. Visit https://www.sshsa.org/ship_store/powerships_steamboat.html to browse back issues. You can also join to make sure you don't miss any of these amazing articles in the future. Visit https://www.sshsa.org/join/index.html to join today and get our quarterly magazine PowerShips as a membership benefit. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpflV7tM_2c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This image with the view of lower Manhattan skyline and the twin towers was taken from the Staten Island Ferry on March 6, 1982. Miss Liberty, the Circle Line Statue of Liberty Ferry, is in the foreground. Braun Brothers Collection, SSHSA Archives. See more images from this collection at bit.ly/BraunBrothersCollection. #OnThisDay #shiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdEHtzsmI5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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