Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, often called M&M and Queen of Sea, was a major cargo and passenger shipping company founded in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1852 is started with routes from Baltimore and Boston two wooden side wheelers ships. In 1859 M&M added two iron hulled steamers to its fleet. In 1866, post Civil War, M&M added routes to Providence, Rhode Island, Norfolk and Savannah, Georgia. In 1876 M&M purchased the Baltimore & Savannah Steamship Company add routes to Savannah, Jacksonville and Charleston. In 1907 the Winsor Line of Philadelphia's J. S. Winslow & Company of Portland, Maine was purchased, with seven steamships. The Winsor Line was founded in 1884 by J. S. Winslow. The Winsor Line first route was from Norfolk, Virginia to New England ports, supplying West Virginia coal. The Winsor Line sailing ship Addie M. Lawrence took ammunition to Europe during World War I. By World War II M&M had a fleet of 18 ships and add routes to Miami. With the outbreak of World War II the War Shipping Administration requisitioned Merchants and Miners Transportation Company fleet of ships for the war effort.theshipslist.com Merchants and Miners Transportation Companymetrojacksonville.com The Steamships of Jacksonville, July 3, 2012

During World War II Merchants and Miners Transportation Company operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II Merchants and Miners Transportation Company was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. Merchants and Miners Transportation Company operated Liberty ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Merchants and Miners Transportation Company crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.

Post World War II, with an aging fleet of ships, the shareholders sold off the fleet of ships, did not buy any surplus warships and closed in 1948.

Jacob S. Winslow Captain Jacob S. Winslow (1827–1902) founded the sailing ship company Winsor Line in 1861, he was born in Pembroke, Maine. He started as a seaman at age 14 and at 19 was the captain of his own ship. He had two shipyards that built over 100 ships, one in Portland, the Winslow Shipbuilding Company and one in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1919 Captain W.A. Magee joined Winslow Shipbuilding Company as VP and GM.Railway and Marine News: (1919), Volume 17 Winslow was an abolitionist and politically active, he had the nickname of "barefoot". Winslow married Philena Morton (1832–1877) in 1853.A Shipyard in Maine, by Ralph Snow and Captain Douglas LeePreserved In Stone, Sea captains memorialized by life-like statues, By Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.,

Mary Butts v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Company

This landmark case was brought by Mary F. Butts against the Merchants & Miners Transportation Company. It was argued by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1913 and decided on June 16, 1913, the opinion written by Justice Willis Van Devanter. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Plaintiff, Mary F. Butts, that "This Court holds that it was the evident intent of Congress, in enacting the Civil Rights Act, to provide for its uniform operation in all places in the states as well as the territories within the jurisdiction of the United States, aud[sic] that it was not the intent of Congress that the provisions of the statute should be applicable only to such places.'

Ships Merchants and Miners Transportation Company ships:The Queen of the Sea Routes, E. A. Mueller, Steamship Historical Society of America, 1999 SS William Lawrence (1869) a historic shipwreck and archaeological site off Hilton Head Island, South Carolina SS Dorchester SS Yorktown (1894) USS Vulcan (1884) SS Telena SS Suwannee, sold in 1917 to Savannah Line, renamed City of Rome. Sank 25 September 1925 after a collision with USS S-51 (SS-162).USS S-51 (SS-162)

World War II ships: Victory ship: Pachaug Victory Liberty ships: Harry L. Glucksman Dudley H. Thomas M. E. Comerford Mack Bruton Bryan Milan R. Stefanik B. Charney Vladeck Nathaniel Alexander SS Lewis Emery Jr. Will Rogers William Few Albert C. Ritchie Amelia Earhart Edward A. Savoy Dolly Madison SS Thomas T. Tucker, sank 1942

All ships owned All ships owned by Merchants and Miners Transportation Company:

Ship Name Year built Alleghany (1) 1881 Alleghany (2) 1923 America 1863 Aries 1862 Benjamin Deford 1859 Berkshire (1) 1881 Berkshire (2) 1923 Blackstone 1868 Chatham (1) 1884 Chatham (2) 1926 Cretan 1882 Decatur H. Miller 1879 Dorchester (1) 1889 Dorchester (2) 1926 Essex 1890 Fairfax (1) 1891 Fairfax (2) 1926 Frederick Fung Shuey 1864 George Appold 1864 Gloucester 1893 Grecian 1900 Howard 1895 Hudson 1874 Indian 1890 Irwin 1918 Itasca Johns Hopkins 1873 Joseph Whitney 1854 Juniata 1897 Kent 1918 Kershaw 1899 Lexington (1) 1877 Lexington (2) 1920 McClellan Merrimack (1) Merrimack (2) 1920 Nantucket 1919 New Orleans 1872 Ontario 1904 Parthian 1887 Persian 1882 Powhatan 1894 Providence 1920 Quantico (1) 1882 Quantico (2) 1919 Roanoke 1919 S. R. Spalding 1859 Saragossa 1863 Somerset State of Texas 1874 Suwannee 1911 Tuscan 1907 Upshur 1919 Volusia 1920 William Crane 1871 William Jenkins 1855 William Kennedy 1864 William Lawrence 1869 Wyoming 1919 York (1) 1918 York (2) 1920

See also

World War II United States Merchant Navy

References

External links Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II