Pittsburgh Steamship Company

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The company used long flags on its ships that could be up to 4.5 meters long. House flag of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company (16 stars).svg
The company used long flags on its ships that could be up to 4.5 meters long.

The Pittsburgh Steamship Company began operations in 1899 by Henry W. Oliver. [2] In 1901 the company became a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. The Pittsburgh Steamship Company operated lake freighters such as the William A. Irvin and Leon Fraser, J. Pierpont Morgan and Irving S. Olds, James A. Farrell and Philip R. Clark, Henry Philips, and the George A. Sloan

References

  1. ↑ "WAVING THROUGH TIME Flags of the Sweetwater Seas". National Museum of the Great Lakes.
  2. ↑ Oliver, Henry (1942). Iron Pioneer. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. p. 252.

3. Pittsburgh Steamship Company ships old

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