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Old Colony, a 4779 gross ton coastal passenger steamship, was built in 1907 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy in November 1917 and commissioned as USS Old Colony (SP-1254) for passage across the Atlantic. Upon her arrival in Great Britain she was turned over to the Royal Navy, which commissioned her as HMS Old Colony in June 1918. She was sold out of British service in March 1920.
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |