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Excerpt from Fifty-Third Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States: With Official Numbers and Signal Letters and Lists of Vessels Belonging to the United States Government; With Distinguishing Signals for the Year Ended June 30, 1921 Vessels lost, abandoned, sold to aliens, etc. Seagoing merchant steam vessels of 500 gross tons and over fitted for burning fuel oil; American merchant vessels of 500 gross tons and over equipped for carrying petroleum in bulk; List of vessels of the United States measured under Panama and Suez Canal rules; Govem ment vessels measured under Panama Canal rules. (part IV.) Government vessels: Vessels belonging to the Navy; the Quartermaster Corps, the Engineer Corps, and the Ordnance Department, United States Army; the Coast Guard; the Public Health Service; the Bureau of Lighthouses; the Coast and Geodetic Survey; the Bureau of Fisheries; the Bureau of Navigation; the Bureau of Immigration; the Reclamation Service; and the Panama Canal. (part V.) The information relating to merchant vessels is arranged as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.