Merchants and Miners Transportation Company


Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, often called M&M and Queen of Sea, was a major cargo and passenger shipping company founded in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1852 is started with routes from Baltimore and Boston two wooden side wheelers ships. In 1859 M&M added two iron hulled steamers to its fleet. In 1866, post Civil War, M&M added routes to Providence, Rhode Island, Norfolk and Savannah, Georgia. In 1876 M&M purchased the Baltimore & Savannah Steamship Company add routes to Savannah, Jacksonville and Charleston. In 1907 the Winsor Line of Philadelphia's J. S. Winslow & Company of Portland, Maine was purchased, with seven steamships. The Winsor Line was founded in 1884 by J. S. Winslow. The Winsor Line first route was from Norfolk, Virginia to New England ports, supplying West Virginia coal. The Winsor Line sailing ship Addie M. Lawrence took ammunition to Europe during World War I. By World War II M&M had a fleet of 18 ships and add routes to Miami. With the outbreak of World War II the War Shipping Administration requisitioned Merchants and Miners Transportation Company fleet of ships for the war effort.
During World War II Merchants and Miners Transportation Company operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II Merchants and Miners Transportation Company was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. Merchants and Miners Transportation Company operated Liberty ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Merchants and Miners Transportation Company crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.
Post World War II, with an aging fleet of ships, the shareholders sold off the fleet of ships, did not buy any surplus warships and closed in 1948.

Jacob S. Winslow

Captain Jacob S. Winslow founded the sailing ship company Winsor Line in 1861, he was born in Pembroke, Maine. He started as a seaman at age 14 and at 19 was the captain of his own ship. He had two shipyards that built over 100 ships, one in Portland, the Winslow Shipbuilding Company and one in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1919 Captain W.A. Magee joined Winslow Shipbuilding Company as VP and GM. Winslow was an abolitionist and politically active, he had the nickname of "barefoot". Winslow married Philena Morton in 1853.

Ships

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All ships owned

All ship owned by Merchants and Miners Transportation Company:
Ship NameYear built
Alleghany 1881
Alleghany 1923
America1863
Aries1862
Benjamin Deford1859
Berkshire 1881
Berkshire 1923
Blackstone1868
Chatham 1884
Chatham 1926
Cretan1882
Decatur H. Miller1879
Dorchester 1889
Dorchester 1926
Essex1890
Fairfax 1891
Fairfax 1926
Frederick
Fung Shuey1864
George Appold1864
Gloucester1893
Grecian1900
Howard1895
Hudson1874
Indian1890
Irwin1918
Itasca
Johns Hopkins1873
Joseph Whitney1854
Juniata1897
Kent1918
Kershaw1899
Lexington 1877
Lexington 1920
McClellan
Merrimack
Merrimack 1920
Nantucket1919
New Orleans1872
Ontario1904
Parthian1887
Persian1882
Powhatan1894
Providence1920
Quantico 1882
Quantico 1919
Roanoke1919
S. R. Spalding1859
Saragossa1863
Somerset
State of Texas1874
Suwannee1911
Tuscan1907
Upshur1919
Volusia1920
William Crane1871
William Jenkins1855
William Kennedy1864
William Lawrence1869
Wyoming1919
York 1918
York 1920