The Minneapolis Forum Cafeteria was located at 36 South 7th Street originally constructed in 1914, a 1930 reconstruction created a cafeteria with a stunning Art Deco interior of black onyx and pale green tiles, and which type of ships were marine vessels of unique design, built by the Vikings during the Viking Age?
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Forum Cafeteria (Minneapolis) The Minneapolis Forum Cafeteria was located at 36 South 7th Street originally constructed in 1914 as the Saxe Theater, later the Strand Theater. A 1930 reconstruction created a cafeteria with a stunning Art Deco interior of black onyx and pale green tiles, sconces, chandeliers, and mirrors with a Minnesota-themed motif: pine cones, waterfalls, and Viking ships.
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Viking ships Viking ships were marine vessels of unique design, built by the Vikings during the Viking Age.
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Type 1937J destroyer The Type 1937J destroyer class was a design created by the "Kriegsmarine" in 1937. The destroyers were designed as ocean-going escort ships, which could attack and defend convoys and also be able to operate in tropical climates. The design was abandoned before any ships were ordered or laid down.
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Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship The "Eidsvold" class was a class of coastal defence ships, two of which were built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1899 by Armstrong Whitworth. The class consisted of two ships,  and  . Locally they were referred to as "panserskip" (lit.: armoured ship).
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Cap San Diego MS "Cap San Diego" is a general cargo ship, situated as a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany. Notable for its elegant silhouette, it was the last of a series of six ships known as "the white swans of the South Atlantic", and marked the apex of German-built general cargo ships before the advent of the container ship and the decline of Germany's heavy industry.
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Cruiser A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundred years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of Sail, the term "cruising" referred to certain kinds of missions – independent scouting, commerce protection, or raiding – fulfilled by a frigate or sloop, which were the "cruising warships" of a fleet. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers, and can usually perform several roles.
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Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde) The Viking Ship Museum (Danish: "Vikingeskibsmuseet" ) in Roskilde is Denmark's national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period.
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Crescent (keelboat) The Crescent Sailboat was built exclusively in Detroit, Michigan from 1953 to 1974. These boats were designed in 1953 by a Ford Motor Company engineer, Dick Hill and friends, who were experimenting with fiberglass. 27 hulls were constructed and raced One-Design. The class made a movement to become Olympic class boats at some point. The molds still exist and the boats are still raced very regularly. Bayview Yacht Club and the Detroit Sail Club are home to a great number of them.
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Flour Exchange Building The Flour Exchange Building is an office building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, designed by architects Long and Kees, who also designed Minneapolis City Hall and the Lumber Exchange Building. Construction originally began in 1892, but halted abruptly in 1893 after only four floors had been built. This was due to the effects of the Panic of 1893. Construction resumed later, and the building was completed in 1909 with eleven stories. The building is generally in the Chicago school, using a relatively straightforward approach without a lot of historic details. The modern influence of this style later influenced the Butler Square building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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Type R ship The Type R ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II refrigerated cargo ship, also called a reefer ship. The R type ship was used in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Cold War. Type R ships were used to transport perishable commodities which require temperature-controlled transportation, such as fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, dairy products and other foods. The US Maritime Commission ordered 41 new refrigerated ships for the US Navy. Because of the difficulty of building refrigerated ships only two were delivered in 1944, and just 26 were delivered in 1945 and the remainder in 1946–48. The 41 R type ships were built in four groups. Two of design types were modified type C1 ships and two were modified type C2 ships. The United Fruit Company operated many of the R type ships in World War 2. The type R2-S-BV1 became the US Navy Alstede-class stores ship and the type R1-M-AV3 became the US Navy Adria-class stores ship.
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Norwegian Maritime Museum The Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norwegian: "Norsk Maritimt Museum" ) is located at Bygdøynesveien on the Bygdøy peninsula, on the western side of Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Maritime Museum is situated near several other museums, including the Fram Museum; the Kon-Tiki Museum; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History; and the Viking Ship Museum. The Norwegian Maritime Museum is operated in conjuction with Norwegian Folk Museum.
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USS St. Augustine (PG-54) USS "St. Augustine" (PG-54) was built in 1929 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Newport News, Virginia. She was originally a steel-hulled yacht named "Viking" and later named "Noparo". She was purchased by the US Navy on 5 December 1940 and was sent to Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts where she was converted into a patrol gunboat. She was named "St. Augustine" on 9 January 1941 and commissioned as USS "St. Augustine" on 16 January 1941.
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MS Viking Cinderella MS "Cinderella is a cruiseferry built in 1989 at Wärtsilä Marine Perno Shipyard in Turku, Finland, as MS "Cinderella for SF Line, one of the owners of the Viking Line consortium. She's currently used on cruise traffic from Stockholm to Mariehamn and occasionally Riga during the summer.
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Radeau (ship) A Radeau was a simply constructed vessel used for many purposes, most notably as a naval battle platform. The term 'Radeau' is derived from the French, meaning raft. Because of the versatility and wide variation of the craft, as well as the ambiguity of the term, there are many vessels that could fall under the category of radeau. However, of the ships that are 'known' radeaus, there are few survivors. It is believed that the only intact radeau rests at the bottom of Lake George, called the "Land Tortoise". From this remaining ship, it is known that the vessel would have been about 50 feet in length, and was designed to be 7 sided to deflect enemy fire. Radeau type ships were known to be common in small provincial fleets, like that at Lake George because of their simple and improvisational structure. Their traditionally smaller cousin, the Bateau follows a very similar usage in American history, serving in the provincial fleets and fur trade.
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Skerry cruiser Skerry cruisers (or Square metre yachts) are yachts, usually wooden, which are constructed according to the Square metre rule. Originating from Sweden, they were historically most popular in the Baltic Sea, though some classes also saw popularity in other European countries and USA. Skerry cruisers are "construction classes", meaning that though the boats are not identical with each other, they are all built according to same formula, making them broadly comparable in size and performance. Most skerry cruisers are slender boats, with low freeboards and tall rigs.
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Anna Kristina (ship) Anna Kristina is a Norwegian-flagged, galeas-rigged Hardangerjakt. Originally named Dyrafjeld, the sloop-rigged vessel was built on a Norwegian farm in 1889. The ship's early career was as a cargo ship in the Hardanger region, with occasional voyages as far afield as Russia. She was sold to new owners and rerigged as a galeas in the late 1920s. The sails were removed during World War II, but continued in merchant service until the mid-1970s. After a series of accidents, the vessel was laid up, then sold to new owners, who restored the vessel and renamed her "Anna Kristina". Charter work occurred throughout the 1980s, including involvement in the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage.
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HSwMS Sölve HSwMS "Sölve" is one of the seven "Hildur"-class monitor s built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. It had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.
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Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation The Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation was a United States corporation which built ships for the US Navy and merchant marine during World War II .
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Flight deck cruiser The flight-deck cruiser was a proposed type of aircraft cruiser, warships combining features of aircraft carriers and light cruisers designed by the United States Navy during the period between World War I and World War II. Several designs were proposed for the type, but none were approved for construction. The final design was developed just before World War II, and the entry of the United States into the war saw the project come to an end.
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Type 1936-class destroyer The Type 1936-class destroyers were a group of six destroyers built for Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine", during the late 1930s. They all participated in World War II although all but one were sunk or scuttled during the naval Battles of Narvik in 1940.
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Imperator-class ocean liner The "Imperator" class ocean liners were a series of three ocean liners designed for the Hamburg America Line, commonly known as "HAPAG". These three ships were commissioned by the chairman of HAPAG Albert Ballin. Namely the "Imperator" (1912), the "Vaterland" (1913) and the largest, the "Bismarck" (1914). These liners were over 50,000 tons, sported three funnels and had a length ranging from 906 ft (276 m) to 955.8 ft (291.3 m). To this day, the "Vaterland" is the largest passenger ship operated by a German shipping company.
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Type L6 class ship The Type L6 ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II as a Great Lakes dry break bulk cargo ship. The L-Type Great Lakes Dry Bulk Cargo Ships were built in 1943 for World War II. The ships has a 15,82 deadweight tonnage. The L6 ships were built by two companies: American Ship Building Company and Great Lakes Engineering Works,Ashtabula, Ohio/ Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Ohio that built the type L6-S-B1 and American SB that built the class L6-S-A1. Steel supply needed for World War was great. To supply iron ore from Lake Superior to steel foundries, the United States Commission had a series of L6 Lakers ship built. The Maritime Commission ordered ten Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the L6-S-B1 type. The L6-S-B1 was design with a 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines. The L6-S-A1 used a lentz 4-zylinder compound engines. All L6 ships were coal burning and delivered between May and November 1943. L6-S-B1 was built for the US Maritime Commission under USMC contract MCc-1834 in 1943 at the River Rouge yard. Each L6 ship cost $2.265 million. The first L6-S-B1 was the SS "Adirondack/Richard J. Reiss", hull 290, keel was laid on March 9, 1942 and launched on September 19, 1942.