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  USS Pocahontas (YT-266) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Pocahontas (YT-266/YTB-266/YTM-266) was a Hiawatha-class yard tug in the United States Navy during World War II.
Pocahontas was laid down, under Maritime Commission contract, as Port Blakeley (MC hull 433) by Birchfield Boiler Incorporated, Tacoma, Washington on 27 October 1941.
Renamed Pocahontas (YT–266) on 4 July 1942, she was delivered to the Maritime Commission and transferred to the Navy on 31 December 1942; and placed in service, in the 11th Naval District, 16 March 1943.
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 Pocahontas
Counties in Iowa and West Virginia and towns in Arkansas, Iowa, and Virginia are named for Pocahontas.
Hiawatha; T. The third Pocahontas was laid down, under Maritime Commission contract, as Port Blakeley (MC hull 433) by Birchfield Boiler Inc., Tacoma, Wash., 27 October 1941; launched 2 May 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
Alvin Davies; designated for Navy use and renamed Pocahontas (YT–266), 4 July 1942; delivered to the Maritime Commission and transferred to the Navy, 31 December 1942; and placed in service, in the 11th Naval District, 16 March 1943.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p8/pocahontas-iv.htm   (197 words)

  
 USS Pocahontas III
cl. Niawatha; T. The third Pocahontas was laid down, under Maritime Commission contract, as Port Blakeley (MC hull 433) by Birchfield Boiler Ine., Tacoma, Wash., 27 October 1941, Iaunched 2 May 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
Alvin Davies, designated for Navy use and renamed Pocahontas (YT-266), 4 July 1942; delivered to the Maritime Commission and transferred to the Navy 31 December 1942, and placed in service, in the 11th Nava~ District, 16 March 1943.
Pocahontas, redesignated YTB-266, 15 May 1944, served the 11th Naval District, headquartered at San Diego, until after World War II.
www.multied.com /Navy/yacht/pocahontasIII.html   (141 words)

  
 Harbor Tugs
YT 122 Tillamook as Tug #16 (Date Unknown) (Contributed by Bill Mozingo)
YT 134 Wahneta Taken 21 June, 1939 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.
YT 169 as civilian tug SPUTTEN DUYVIL, hull No. 459 built by Luders in Stamford, Connecticut.
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A child of Powhatan's, a very young girl called Pocahontas, sprang from among the women, ran to the stone, and with her own body sheltered that of the Englishman....* * A vast amount of erudition has been expended by historical students to establish the truth or falsity of this Pocahontas story.
Pocahontas stayed by the James, in the rude settlers' town, which may have seemed to the Indian girl stately and wonderful enough.
Here he and Pocahontas dwelled together "civilly and lovingly." When two years had passed the couple went with their infant son upon a visit to England.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of England in America 1580-1652, by Lyon Gardiner Tyler.
Pocahontas carried a pair of antlers on her head, an otter's skin at her waist and another on her arm, a quiver of arrows at her back, and a bow and arrow in her hand.
Dale took Pocahontas with him to England, and Lady Delaware presented her at court, and her portrait engraved by the distinguished artist Simon de Passe was a popular curiosity.
While in England she met Captain John Smith, and when Smith saluted her as a princess Pocahontas insisted on calling him father and having him call her his child.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/6/2/9/16294/16294-h/16294-h.htm   (15210 words)

  
 Text Only Version -- National Register of Historic Places Indian Mounds of Mississippi Travel Itinerary
Examples of this type of mound can be seen at the Winterville, Jaketown, Pocahontas, Emerald, Grand Village, Owl Creek and Bear Creek sites.
Mississippian period mounds can be seen at the Winterville, Jaketown, Pocahontas, Emerald, Grand Village, Owl Creek and Bear Creek sites.
On U.S. Highway 49 at the town of Pocahontas, about nine miles north of the Jackson, Mississippi, interchange of U.S. and I-220.
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He was for nine months, if not more, in the colony: he had travelled at least 115 miles up the James River, he occasionally suggests modifications of Smith's map, he refers to Smith's adventures, and his glossary is very much larger than Smith's; its accuracy I leave to American linguists.
Strachey, not being captured, did not owe his release (1) to the magnanimity of Powhattan, (2) to his own ingenious lies, (3) to the intercession of Pocahontas, as Smith, and his friends for him, at various dates inconsistently declared.
Smith certainly saw more of the natives at home: Strachey brought a more studious mind to what he could learn of their customs and ideas; and is not a convicted braggart.
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 USS Pocahontas (YT-266) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. Ch. IV
That the consumption of tobacco in England was already very large, may be inferred from the fact that it was supposed, only two years after the experiment of 1612, that the amount used entailed a national outlay of two hundred thousand pounds sterling.
The first colonist who was led to make a trial of the weed which was to exercise such an enormous influence on the history of Virginia and the United States, was the celebrated John Rolfe, the husband of Pocahontas.
His attention was in a measure called to it by the fact, that he was himself addicted to the habit of smoking.
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 John H. Talman Ltd. - Tuesday October 18, 2005 Stamp and Coin Auction
Including “Pocahontas” by Susan Donnell in 1991 and “Charles” by Anthony Holden in 1988 E$75
Owner states unchecked for types I, II, III or watermarks, or for # 249, 251, 253, 265, 266, 267 and 279B.
266 * USC #026 1950 10¢ fur ovpt.
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 Birchfield Boiler
To US Navy 1942 as Pocahontas (YT 266), sold private 1972, scrapped
To US Navy 1942 as Pogatacut (YT 267), sold private 1970, scrapped
To US Navy 1942 as Red Cloud (YT 268), sold private 1972, scrapped
www.coltoncompany.com /shipbldg/ussbldrs/wwii/merchantshipbuilders/birchfield.htm   (90 words)

  
 Pioneers of the Old South, A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnston - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3)
establish the truth or falsity of this Pocahontas story.
Pocahontas stayed by the James, in the rude settlers' town, which may have
266 ff., W. Scott traces the history of these acute dissensions in the
www.fullbooks.com /Pioneers-of-the-Old-South-A-Chronicle-of1.html   (15901 words)

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