SS Dante Alighieri
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| History | |
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 Italy | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Dante Alighieri |
| Owner |
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| Route | 1914–1927: Genoa–Palermo–New York |
| Builder |
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| Laid down | September 1914 |
| Launched | 28 November 1914 |
| Completed | 28 February 1915 |
| Maiden voyage | Genoa–Palermo–New York, 10 February 1915 |
| Fate | 5 February 1944 beached, broke in two, abandoned. Scrapped 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 9,754 GRT |
| Length | 503.7 ft (153.5 m) |
| Beam | 59.5 ft (18.1 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Notes |
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SS Dante Alighieri was an Italian
Nippon Yusen Kaisha and renamed Asahi Maru. Operating as a hospital ship
during early World War II, she later served as a transport. Asahi Maru was damaged in a collision in 1944 off the coast of Japan, beached and abandoned. The wreck was eventually scrapped in 1949.
History
Dante Alighieri was built by
chartered as a troop transport and attached to the United States Navy Cruiser and Transport Force.[3]
After the war ended, Dante Alighieri resumed her Genoa–New York service, continuing on the same route through October 1927. She departed New York for funnels removed. On 24 January 1942, the hospital ship was hit by gunfire from the destroyer USS John D. Ford, during an American incursion on Balikpapan. On 10 November 1943 the vessel was converted to an auxiliary transport. On 5 February 1944, Asahi Maru was damaged in a collision in the Japanese Inland Sea, beached, broke in two, and abandoned. The ship's cargo was salvaged at end of February. She was scrapped in 1949.[2][4]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dante Alighieri (ship, 1915).
- ^ "Japanese Hospital Ships". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Immigrant Ship Information". Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- OCLC 976757. (Page 240 shows the date as "July 1, 1916", but is wrong. See p. 102 for a description of the appendices with the correct date of July 1, 1918, listed.)
- ^ IJN Hospital Ship Asahi Maru