{"id":741,"date":"2006-11-09T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/the-crew-manifest-of-the-world-war-ii-liberty-ship-daniel-drake\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:59:38","slug":"the-crew-manifest-of-the-world-war-ii-liberty-ship-daniel-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/741","title":{"rendered":"The Crew Manifest of the World War II Liberty Ship ‘Daniel Drake’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I saw that no fewer than four genealogy blogs, Chris Dunham’s The Genealogue<\/a>, Joe Beine’s Genealogy Roots Blog<\/a>, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter<\/a>, and Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings<\/a> mentioned the fact that Ancestry.com has now digitized and indexed all readily available U.S. Passengers Lists from 1820 to 1960.  Moreover, Ancestry’s entire Immigration Collection is FREE until the end of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I immediately took a look and I found much more than I expected, because the records in this collection are not just Immigrant Passenger Lists, but also include Crew Lists for World War II Naval Ships and Passenger Lists for Vacation Cruise Ships!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, I found the record of my father’s World War II service on the S.S. Daniel Drake, where he served in the U.S. Naval Armed Guard on the Murmansk Run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crew Manifest for the S.S. Daniel Drake (Page 2)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Crew Manifest for Francis Danko – 1943<\/a>.  My father’s record states that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n