Content Sources:
Sealift Magazine, issues from 1962-66 scanned and digitized in Google Books.
Video tour of SS American Victory is from the gCaptain website.
The Sitmar Victory ships history is in Reuben Goosens Classic Liners website
Victory ship conversions described in Ocean Liners: An Illustrated History by Peter Newall (pub. 2018 in UK)
US Coast Guard Loran C User Handbook (1992)
New York Ships to Foreign Ports: 1939-45, by John Mozolak (Web Page)
Last of the Boom Ships, by Jim Whalen
A Tale of Two Colliers, by Bill Lee
Naval Cover Museum (Web Collection)
Postal History of US Naval Ships Named for Jewish Notables (Web Collection)
Atlantic Voyageur August 1963 from Henry Kargel
More 1962-63 Atlantic Voyageur issues added 9/17, furnished by Doug Hanahan, scanned by Marty Rombach
A Note on 50 Years of Multibeam, article in Hydro International, May-June 2013
Oceanographic Ships Fore and Aft, by Stewart B. Nelson, NAVOCEANO, 1971
United States Maritime Service Training Manual, Engineering Branch Training, 1944
USS Liberty Mechanical Systems Drawings by Lt. George Golden and Jim Williamson EM3 (1964-65)
New York City port arrivals passenger and crew lists (Ancestry.com)
WW II enlistment records in mooseroots.com
War Shipping Administration press release February 19, 1944: Release of Army Inductees
Fort Ritchie has storied history, article in Hagerstown Herald-Mail, June 30, 2008
Shipping schedule collection of Björn Larsson
Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors, by Fletcher S. Bassett, published in 1885
Slowbell's Deck: Memoirs of a Retired Merchant Seaman by Carl Friberg
Nautical titles and orders from the NOAA Teacher at Sea and the Navy History and Heritage websites
Shipping out: My Experiences on a Commercial Tanker, by Captain George Stewart, USN (Ret.) January 23, 2014
US Naval Institute
Photo Credits:
Maine Historical Society (photo of collier SS Oakey L. Alexander)
SS Samsoaring photo from armed-guard.com
VisitNorway.com
OpenSeaMap.org
Gmaps.com
Palm Beach Post photo archives
TogetherWeServed.com
Waterbury Victory at Honolulu photos from University of Hawaii Library
Postal cachet from Naval Cover Museum
Engine room video screen captures (SS American Victory) from dieselduck.info
Background image: USCGS chart of Pacific ocean west of Seattle
Photos from Chet Headley added 8/17
Official US Navy photos
Naval History and Heritage Command
All Hands Magazine photo archives
Photos from Marty Rombach added 3/17
Personal collection of photos
Technical References for LORAC Radio Navigator:
International Hydrographic Review, a publication of the International Hydrographic Bureau (Monaco)
Review of Marine Navigation Systems and Techniques, Dept. of the Navy, BUSHIPS 1965
Installation and Evaluation of Lorac Precise Navigation System, by R. E. Shrum Lt. USCG, US Navy Postgraduate School, December 1968
Evaluation of Lorac Radiolocation System for Conducting Speed and Maneuvering Trials of Naval Vessels, by Q.R. Robinson and J.A. Heffner, February 1960
Exmouth Gulf Marine Seismic Survey, Western Australia, 1961, by West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd
