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Construction began in 1950 and the U.S. government paid for part of the cost, with the understanding it could be used as a troopship, if needed.
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George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
Awakened aboard their troopship around 2 a.m., the soldiers pulled on their equipment.
—Frank A. Blazich Jr., The Conversation, 10 May 2024
According to the National Museum of American History, Key watched the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from aboard a British troopship.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
The answer is, in part, that the Spanish-flu pandemic was so braided together with the end of the First World War, which accelerated its spread (most brutally on troopships headed home), that one calamity was buried under another, more photogenic one.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
One of the most famous ghost stories is that of a former crew member who died during the ship's service as a troopship.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
In 1989, when a steep increase in drug arrests filled the Rikers Island jail complex, the city used a converted British troopship as a prison barge to house inmates and docked it in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.
—Andy Newman, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
In early January, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed with an enormous invasion force on Luzon, the largest of the Philippine islands; Mailer, after waiting in a troopship, went ashore a few weeks later.
—David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
My family spent less than five months living in the classroom of a former private school, a brief way station before sailing on a converted U.S troopship to New York and ultimately starting their lives over on a New Jersey chicken farm.
—Seth Stern, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
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George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
Awakened aboard their troopship around 2 a.m., the soldiers pulled on their equipment.
—Frank A. Blazich Jr., The Conversation, 10 May 2024
According to the National Museum of American History, Key watched the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from aboard a British troopship.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
The answer is, in part, that the Spanish-flu pandemic was so braided together with the end of the First World War, which accelerated its spread (most brutally on troopships headed home), that one calamity was buried under another, more photogenic one.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
One of the most famous ghost stories is that of a former crew member who died during the ship's service as a troopship.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
In 1989, when a steep increase in drug arrests filled the Rikers Island jail complex, the city used a converted British troopship as a prison barge to house inmates and docked it in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.
—Andy Newman, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
In early January, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed with an enormous invasion force on Luzon, the largest of the Philippine islands; Mailer, after waiting in a troopship, went ashore a few weeks later.
—David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
My family spent less than five months living in the classroom of a former private school, a brief way station before sailing on a converted U.S troopship to New York and ultimately starting their lives over on a New Jersey chicken farm.
—Seth Stern, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
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“Troopship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troopship. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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