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Granville Conway
Captain Granville Conway (1898–1969) was born in Cambridge, Maryland. Conway distinguished himself in maritime service and served in various positions during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including Shipping Advisor to both Presidents and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He received the Medal for Merit in 1947. In his later years, Conway served as president of shipping companies.
==Early life==
In 1906 his father, Captain Edward Conway, was injured, swept off his schooner and lost in a storm near Baltimore, Maryland. The son entered the American Merchant Marine in 1916. He became an experienced pilot in Chesapeake waters and was made a Captain of the Shipping Board's Reserve Fleet Division at Norfolk, Va, in 1921. The Captain served as manager for the Shipping Board in New London, Connecticut, and for the Staten Island Sound Fleet – 135 laid-up vessels of World War I vintage – at Prall's Island. During this period he outfitted and delivered ships for explorer Richard E. Byrd's trip to the North Pole in 1926 and the South Pole in 1933. In 1935 he became North Atlantic District Head of the Shipping Board, responsible for the Port of New York. He continued with the Maritime Commission and then the War Shipping Administration. He was named head of the War Shipping Administration in 1946.
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