Launch of the SS Zebulon Vance
- Title
- Launch of the SS Zebulon Vance
- Description
- Launch of the United States Liberty Ship S.S. Zebulon B. Vance, the first ship to be completed at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company shipyard in Wilmington, N.C.
- Date
- December 06, 1941
- Original Format
- photographs
- Extent
- 22cm x 17cm
- Local Identifier
- 0062-b6-fa-i4
- Subject(s)
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Naval and Maritime History
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Transportation: Water
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- North Carolina Shipbuilding Collection from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Comments
I care for a young lady that was on that ship with you on April 4, 1946. and it brings back good memorys for her
I was a 16 years old engine room wiper from 4/1947 to 10/1947.Great experience for a youngster. I also remember stopping in mid-ocean to transfer a sick seaman from another ship to the Vance.ALSO THE TIME WE STOPPED NEAR BREMENHAVEN FOR SOME LOOSE FLOATIN MINES.
My mother, Jean Armstrong, a GI War Bride from Stoke-On-Trent, England and my brother came to the U.S. on the Zebulon B. Vance on the same voyage. She lives in Oklahoma with my father. They have been married 67 years.
I came to this country as a GI bride on the Zebulon B. Vance. It docked in NY on April 4, 1946. Mayor Laguardia came and welcomed us to this country. It was a very bright sunny day. The voyage had taken 15 days and 15 nights because we had to come the great circle way to avoid mines possibly still in the ocean. It was a great ship.
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I had my third birthday on this ship, May 11,1946, coming from France with my mother. We sailed out of LeHavre.