United States. Maritime Commission

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  • Governmenal body
| System number 987007572385405171

Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
United States. Maritime Commission
Other forms of name
United States Maritime Commission
Biographical or Historical Data
Created by act approved 6/29/36
assumed powers and duties of former Shipping Board Bureau
abolished 5/24/50
functions transferred to Federal Maritime Board and Maritime Administration
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 131869199
Wikidata: Q2326941
Library of congress: n 82069864
Sources of Information
  • Report on volume of water borne foreign commerce of the United States by ports of origin and destination, Fiscal year 1936:t.p. (United States Maritime Commission)
  • LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: U.S. Maritime Service; voluntary org. of merchant marine of the U.S. established by the Maritime Commission under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936)