SEALIFT - Spanish-American War | How the Army & Navy Supported Expeditionary Warfare in 1898

How the Army & Navy Supported Expeditionary Warfare in 1898 | SEALIFT - Spanish-American War

What's Going on With Shipping?
November 11, 2022

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian at Campbell University and former merchant mariner - discusses the role of Sealift (the use of commercial merchant vessels) in the Spanish-American War. At the start of the war, the US Navy drew upon the vessels under the Postal Mail Act of 1891 as auxiliary cruisers. The Army Quartermaster Corps leased vessels from the commercial merchant marine as troop transports and cargo ships to embark forces for Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. To maintain its new territory, the US Army created a fleet of commercial vessels known as the Army Transport Service and to sustain the naval forces, the Navy created the Collier Service.

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00:00 Introduction
00:55 Background/Outbreak Spanish-American War
03:42 Auxiliary Cruisers
06:51 Port of Tampa
11:19 Amphibious Landing
12:52 Army Transport Service
15:16 Navy Collier Service
16:45 Conclusion

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Naval History and Heritage Command: Spanish-American War 1898
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-b...

Correspondence Relating to the War With Spain Including the Insurrection in the Philippine Islands and the China Relief Expedition, April 15, 1898, to July 30, 1902
https://history.army.mil/html/books/0...

Gathering at the Golden Gate: Mobilizing for War in the Philippines, 1898
http://www.militarymuseum.org/gatheri...

The U.S. Army Transport Service
https://www.spanamwar.com/transports