Captain Mulzac remembered
The presentation party at last Monday’s ceremony, with Andre Liverpool and Rupert Mulzac (front 2nd and 3rd from left respectively.)
Sunday 31st January, 2021 marked the 50th Anniversary of the death of Captain Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac, the Vincentian national who became the first black man to have gained a Shipping Master’s Certificate in the United States of America, and to later captain the ‘SS Booker T. Washington’.
The ‘SS Booker T. Washington’ was a United States Maritime Commission (MC) Liberty ship, first of 17 Liberty ships that were named after African-Americans, and which, under Capt. Mulzac’s watch, made 22 round trip voyages ferrying troops and supplies to Europe and the Pacific theatre between 1942 and 1947.
A Ship Made of Concrete? They Actually Existed During World War II
The fate of the remaining World War II concrete fleet was not as unique or entertaining as their predecessors of World War I.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The use of concrete was sparked by wartime shortages of steel; as they say, Necessity is the mother of invention.
It is a fact that war has sparked some amazing innovations. It has at the same time spawned incredible desperation. The attempt by the U.S. Navy in both world wars to construct seagoing vessels made of concrete would seem to be a combination of the two at first glance.