Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.
Wisconsin Maritime Museum is celebrating the legacy of Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company building 28 submarines for World War II.
In 1944 the Merchant Marines commissioned the Rockland Victory, a Greenville Victory-class cargo ship built in 90 days by the Oregon Shipbuilding Company.