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I used a combination of a family book of ancestors and antecedents of Noah Whipple of Old Quakertown, further later research by a distant cousin who dug up more info and posted it at http://Whipple.org - and emails my cousin sent to me, and some digging I did on the Whipple and some Mayflower websites (not the Mayflower Society website - they are a pain and just want to dress up and congratulate each other at fancy banquets - all of course, wearing a Mayflower medallion! Funny as 25% of Americans have Mayflower roots!) - somehow I have misplaced my notebooks and emails on most of this - but the several Mayflower sites list the Bush family, Roosevelts, and loads of actors, writers, poets, sculptors, ship designers/builders and ship owners and captains (on PEI, in Boston, in Mystic) -
It is easy to get info until you try to go back to Scotland, Ireland, England, Canada with common surnames - or to Germany and that area where national borders changed over the many years
The ship “Amerika” was captured by America during WWI and renamed the “America” - it served as a military transport and cargo ship in various capacities until early WWII
Polish names should be easier to find.
There is an old steamboat sunken in one of the local rivers around here. When the tide got low this winter, a man in a speedboad ran into it and got killed.
Your ‘ship Amerika’ made me think of it.