[Records] Shipping companies -- Waterman. 1980.

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[Records] Shipping companies -- Waterman. 1980.

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4 items ; 28 cm.

Maine Maritime Academy, Nutting Memorial Library

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Maine Maritime Academy, Nutting Memorial Library

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United States. Federal Maritime Commission

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Kanuk, Leslie Lazar.

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Waterman Steamship Corporation

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John B. Waterman, a native of New Orleans, moved to Mobile in 1902. In 1919, in response to the subsidation of the American Merchant Marine fleet, he helped organize the Waterman Steamship Corporation and served as its president until his death in 1937. Eventually, the Corporation would own and operate its own shipbuilding and repair yards, possess its own terminal facilities, carry on its own airline freight operations, control several subsidiaries, and operate a fleet of 125 ships active throu...