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with a crew of 95. Propulsion was by three in series
Newport News impulse turbines delivering up to a continuous 7,500 shaft horsepower through reduction gears to a single screw of 17 ft 8 in (5.4 m) diameter. Electricity for extensive use throughout the ship, including deck windlass, capstans, winches and watertight doors was supplied by three 250 kilowatt General Electric generator sets which also charged a storage battery bank for emergency power in case of main plant failure. Six cargo holds were served by cargo side ports for No. 3 and No. 4 with hatches for the balance with each of the two masts having four 5 ton booms and the foremast an additional 25 ton boom.
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Capacity was for 134 first and 24 tourist class passengers with first class spaces done in a "modern
Spanish" motif with first class accommodations having twin beds and designed to meet hotel standards of the time. All had telephones and most were outside rooms with sliding glass windows or ports. A
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was allocated to Navy under a sub-bareboat charter for "Repairing" while Navy was acquiring a group of commercial type vessels to modify into combat loaders for the North
African campaign. Title to the ship delivered to WSA on 25 September. Conversion of the ship to Navy requirements as prospective
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The ship was designed for a normal speed of 16 knots, having refrigerated cargo capacity of 58,500 cubic feet (1,660 m), ventilated cargo capacity of 67,500 cubic feet (1,910 m) and general cargo capacity of 87,000 cubic feet (2,500 m) for a total of 213,000 cubic feet (6,000 m)
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was delivered by the New York & Cuba Mail
Steamship Company to the War Shipping Administration on 14 February 1942 under a bareboat charter and operated by Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines (AGWI Lines) acting as agent for WSA to meet Army transport requirements. On 6 August 1942 the ship
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provided scheduled commercial service on a route from New York to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Kingston, Jamaica, Puerto
Colombia and Cartagena, Colombia and Cristobal, Panama. After the ship's 1938–1939 transfer to the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company's Cuba Mail Line and renaming to
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On 20 March 1946 the ship was again delivered to AGWI Lines for operation for WSA until laid up in the
Reserve Fleet at Lee Hall, Virginia on 26 June and sale for $ 650,000 on 14 August 1947 to the Republic of with delivery to the buyer on 16 April 1948.
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467:(AP-68) mentions the owners of the much larger Matson liner; however, that ship, operated by WSA's agent Oceanic Steamship, was engaged in troop operations between New York and Halifax, Scotland and then at Casablanca. See
369:(AP-68) was cancelled when Navy found the ship unsuitable for the mission. Other possibilities were explored, including conversion to a combined operations flagship, but those were abandoned and
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sea trials in which the ship achieved an average speed of just under 18.5 knots at 8,275 shaft horsepower over a course of 67.5 nautical miles.
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into the spring of 1943 when a new 1,202-foot Army wharf, port and railway equipment improved operations. Along with the improvements the
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Army operations in the West Indies and South
Atlantic had been hampered by port congestion and transportation problems at the base in
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was a passenger and freight ship built for the Colombian Mail Steamship Company built at
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253:(WSA) on 25 September 1942. The ship was then allocated to the
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920:. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration.
903:. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration.
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Article pages 49–50 detailing design, features and motif of
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286:on 17 November 1932. The ships were designed by
974:. New York: The New York Marine News Company.
800:U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II
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783:"Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News VA"
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593:Maritime Administration Ship History &
542:Maritime Administration Ship History &
995:"New Steamers; Columbian Steamship Company
831:"Colombian Line (Colombian Steamship Co.)"
1051:Transport ships of the United States Army
764:Bykofsky, Joseph; Larson, Harold (1990).
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918:Ship History Database Vessel Status Card
901:Ship History Database Vessel Status Card
16:For other ships with similar names, see
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970:Weiss, George; Leonard, J. W. (1920).
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1036:Ships built in Newport News, Virginia
953:United States Shipping Board (1933).
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1041:Passenger ships of the United States
957:(Report). Government Printing Office
155:385 ft 5 in (117.5 m)
1016:"Spanish Main cruise brochure image
936:Roberts, Stephen S. (5 June 2007).
829:Larsson, Björn (15 November 2009).
392:at Trinidad was assigned the USAT
163:57 ft 6 in (17.5 m)
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656:United States Shipping Board 1933
171:23 ft 8 in (7.2 m)
1046:Troop ships of the United States
850:Larsson, Björn (2 April 2011).
925:Pacific Marine Review (1933).
265:to supply bases in Brazil and
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390:Transportation Corps command
211:as built: 213,000 cubic feet
972:America's maritime progress
694:, pp. 50–51, February.
568:, pp. 49–50, February.
377:for Army operation as USAT
357:War Shipping Administration
251:War Shipping Administration
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748:Bykofsky & Larson 1990
692:Pacific Marine Review 1933
680:Pacific Marine Review 1933
668:Pacific Marine Review 1933
632:Bykofsky & Larson 1990
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908:Maritime Administration.
891:Maritime Administration.
856:Maritime Timetable Images
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781:Colton, T. (2 May 2014).
235:Newport News Shipbuilding
208:Cargo: 205,578 cubic feet
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319:Passenger accommodations
682:, p. 49, February.
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273:Construction and design
136:General characteristics
798:Grover, David (1987).
527:, p. 26, January.
306:being $ 2,343,162.07.
239:Newport News, Virginia
123:Official Number 232021
928:Pacific Marine Review
804:Naval Institute Press
438:Pacific Marine Review
412:The ship was renamed
310:Cargo and engineering
463:The DANFS entry for
333:Commercial 1932–1942
131:Sold for scrap, 1968
793:on 26 October 2014.
787:ShipbuildingHistory
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873:"Lloyd's Register"
871:Lloyds (1943–44).
622:, pp. 10, 15.
469:MARAD status cards
288:Theodore E. Ferris
1005:with photographs.
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49:Puerto Rico
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1031:1932 ships
1025:Categories
479:References
184:Propulsion
424:Footnotes
416:and then
349:and then
255:U.S. Army
112:Completed
96:Laid down
1010:Colombia
999:Columbia
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862:6 August
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394:Monterey
386:Trinidad
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371:Monterey
362:Monterey
351:Monterey
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283:Colombia
263:Trinidad
259:Monterey
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200:Capacity
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104:Launched
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961:23 June
882:10 July
465:Alameda
414:Cankiri
367:Alameda
278:Haiti's
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