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Vanuatu’s dive options range from coral reef and dramatic caverns to legendary World War II ship and plane wrecks like Million Dollar Point and the SS President Coolidge, a troopship sunk by mines in 1942 that can be explored with Aore Adventures in Espiritu Santo.
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Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
According to the National Museum of American History, Key watched the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from aboard a British troopship.
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Sarah Al-Arshani,
USA TODAY,
26 Mar. 2024
One of the most famous ghost stories is that of a former crew member who died during the ship's service as a troopship.
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Joe Sills,
Forbes,
27 Jan. 2023
In early January, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed with an enormous invasion force on Luzon, the largest of the Philippine islands; Mailer, after waiting in a troopship, went ashore a few weeks later.
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David Denby,
The New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2022
In 1989, when a steep increase in drug arrests filled the Rikers Island jail complex, the city used a converted British troopship as a prison barge to house inmates and docked it in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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Andy Newman,
New York Times,
19 Sep. 2022
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Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
According to the National Museum of American History, Key watched the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from aboard a British troopship.
—
Sarah Al-Arshani,
USA TODAY,
26 Mar. 2024
One of the most famous ghost stories is that of a former crew member who died during the ship's service as a troopship.
—
Joe Sills,
Forbes,
27 Jan. 2023
In early January, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed with an enormous invasion force on Luzon, the largest of the Philippine islands; Mailer, after waiting in a troopship, went ashore a few weeks later.
—
David Denby,
The New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2022
In 1989, when a steep increase in drug arrests filled the Rikers Island jail complex, the city used a converted British troopship as a prison barge to house inmates and docked it in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.
—
Andy Newman,
New York Times,
19 Sep. 2022
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“Troopship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troopship. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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