American Mail Line

American Mail Line of

After World War 2 American Mail Line started Regular services again with a line of "Mail" Ships. The "Mail ship" China Mail, Island Mail, were a C2-SU design, built by Sun Yards of Chester, Pennsylvania.^[2] In 1965 the American Mail Line acquired a line of five Type C4-class ship ships, C4-S-1s. ^[3]

Services

Regular Passenger and mail service ships in 1923 and 1936, from the Admiral Oriental Line:

• President Jackson
• President Jefferson
• SS Pine Tree State
• President Madison (American ocean liner in service 1922–1938)
• President McKinley

Regular service ports of call in 1923 and 1936: Seattle, Seattle, Victoria, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila.

Regular Passenger service ships in started in 1948: (service years)

• SS Java Mail (1948-1969)
• SS Island Mail (1948-1959)
• SS Ocean Mail
• India Mail (1948-1965)
• SS China Mail (1948-1959)
• SS Oregon Mail
• SS Schuyler O. Bland
  (1957-1959)

Regular Passenger service ports of call in 1957 for the above: Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Yokohama, Kobe, Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Hong Kong, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Pacific Northwest ports.

Regular Passenger service ships starting in 1957:

• Java Mail
• Island Mail
• American Mail
• Canada Mail

Regular service ports of call in 1957 for the above: Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Singapore, Penang, Port Swettenham, Medan, Singapore, Djakarta, Philippine ports, California ports and Pacific Northwest ports.

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Regular Passenger service ships in started about 1965 with C4 Mariner-class ships: (service years)

• SS Ocean Mail (2) (1965-1974)
• SS Canada Mail (1965-1974) ^[5]
• SS Japan Mail
  (1965-1974)
• SS Washington Mail (1965-1974)
• SS Philippine Mail (1965-1971) ^[6]

Cargo ships

American Mail Line's five

• Alaskan Mail 1968, renamed SS Cape Girardeau 1978. Assigned for non-retention in National Defense Reserve Fleet as of April 2020^[8]
• Indian Mail renamed SS Cape Gibson,assigned for non-retention in the National Defense Reserve Fleet as of April 2020
• Korean Mail built 1969, scrapped 1995. (staterooms for twelve passengers)
• Hong Kong Mail built 1968, renamed SS Wilson in 1978, scrapped June 2008.
• American Mail (1969) later renamed SS Cleveland, scrapped 2009

World War II

The SS Alhambra Victory and others were run by its American Mail Line crew and the

• SS Alhambra Victory
• SS Appleton Victory^[11]
• SS Cabell
• MS Cape Flattery (1940)
• SS John S. Copley^[12]
• SS Cushing Eells^[13]
• SS George Clymer^[14]
• SS George R. Holmes
• SS Gilbert Stuart
• SS Joel Palmer
• SS Francis W. Pettygrove^[15]
• SS John A. Johnson
• SS John B. Kendrick
• SS John Lind
• SS Ida M. Tarbell
• SS Norway Victory
• SS Mankato Victory^[16]
• SS Meriwether Lewis^[17]
• Empire Peregrine^[18]
• SS Samakron[19]
• SS Samfaithful
• SS Samuel Parker
• SS Sidney Edgerton^[20]
• SS Temple Victory^[21]
• SS Thomas A. Hendricks
• SS Tufts Victory
• SS R. P. Warner
• SS Ralph Barnes
• SS William H. Dall^[22]
• SS West Cressey

• • Sank or damaged:^[23]
• Capillo Dec. 8, 1941 bombed, later sunk by U.S. Army
• Coldbrook June 2, 1942 ran aground, total loss
• Collingsworth Jan. 9, 1943 torpedoed
• John S. Copley Dec. 16, 1943 torpedoed, damaged
• Crown City Sept. 2, 1942 ran aground
• Francis W. Pettygrove Aug. 13, 1943 torpedoed
• George Clymers June 7, 1942 torpedoed
• Meriweather Lewis March 2, 1943 torpedoed
• Samuel Parker July 22, 1943 several direct hits was repaired
• John A. Johnson Oct. 30, 1944 torpedoed

Korean War

• SS Canada Mail ^[24]
• SS Union Victory
• SS Allegheny Victory
• SS New World Victory

Vietnam War

• Red Oak Victory
• SS Dartmouth Victory - SS Alaska Mail in 1960^[25]
• SS Great Falls Victory^[26]
• SS Las Vegas Victory^[27]
• SS Navajo Victory^[28]
• SS North Platte Victory
• SS Mayfield Victory

References