SS Panaman
Baltimore, Maryland
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History | |
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Name | SS Panaman |
Owner | American-Hawaiian Steamship Company |
Ordered | September 1911[3] |
Builder |
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Cost | $715,000[4] |
Yard number | 128[2] |
Launched | 28 June 1913 |
Completed | September 1913[2] |
Identification | Official number: 211629[1] |
Fate | Chartered by U.S. Army |
History | |
United States | |
Name | USAT Panaman |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy, 12 August 1918[5] |
History | |
United States | |
Name | USS Panaman (ID-3299) |
Acquired | 12 August 1918 |
Commissioned | 12 August 1918 |
Decommissioned | 18 September 1919 |
Fate | Returned to American-Hawaiian |
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Port of registry | |
Fate | Scrapped at Baltimore, 15 September 1954[1] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 6,535 GRT[4] 10,175 LT DWT[4] |
Length | |
Beam | 53 ft 8 in (16.36 m)[5] |
Draft | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)[5] |
Installed power | 4,000 ihp (2,983 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h)[5] |
Capacity | Cargo: 492,255 cubic feet (13,939.1 m3)[4] |
Crew | 18 officers, 40 crewmen |
Notes | Sister ships: Dakotan, Montanan, Pennsylvanian, Minnesotan, Washingtonian, Iowan, Ohioan[2] |
General characteristics (as USS Panaman) | |
Displacement | 14,495 t[8] |
Complement | 70[5] |
Armament |
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SS Panaman was a cargo ship built in 1913 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. The ship was sometimes incorrectly referred to as SS Panamanian. During World War I she was known as USAT Panaman in service for the United States Army and USS Panaman (ID-3299) in service for the United States Navy. Late in her career she was known as SS Marcella for the Italian government.
She was built by the
During World War II, Panaman was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and initially sailed between New York and Caribbean ports, but with two trips to African ports mixed in. Beginning in mid 1943, Panaman sailed from New York or Boston to ports in the United Kingdom. In late 1946, she was sailing in the Pacific Ocean. In July 1947, American-Hawaiian sold Panaman to the Italian government. Renamed Marcella at that time, she was scrapped in September 1954 at Baltimore.
Design and construction
In November 1911, the
Panaman (Maryland Steel yard no. 128)
Early career
When Panaman began sailing for American-Hawaiian, the company shipped cargo from
After the
In October 1915, landslides closed the Panama Canal and all American-Hawaiian ships, including Panaman, returned to the Straits of Magellan route again.
World War I
At some point after the United States declared war on
On 12 August, Panaman was transferred to the
Panaman sailed on 8 December for New York, where the Board of Survey found her fit for conversion to a
Interwar years
Panaman resumed cargo service with American-Hawaiian after her return from World War I service. Though the company had abandoned its original Hawaiian sugar routes by this time,
In 1940, Panaman made the news when eleven crewmen
World War II
After the United States entered
In late April 1943, Panaman sailed from Hampton Roads to
Later career
After the war's end, American-Hawaiian continued operating Panaman for about two more years. In December 1946, the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that Panaman was speeding to Manila with two men ill with polio. The news article reported that the ship had one man die in Saigon from the disease two months prior.[29] In July the following year, the company sold the Panaman to the Italian government.[30] The ship operated under her new name of Marcella and remained in Italian hands until she was scrapped on 15 September 1954 at Baltimore.[1]
Notes
- Maryland Steel had built three ships—Kentuckian, Georgian, and Honolulan—for American-Hawaiian in 1909 in what proved to be a satisfactory arrangement for both companies, and in September 1911, American-Hawaiian placed an order for Panaman's four older sister ships—Minnesotan, Dakotan, Montanan, and Pennsylvanian.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Panaman". Miramar Ship Index. R.B.Haworth. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
- ^ a b c d Colton, Tim. "Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point MD". Shipbuildinghistory.com. The Colton Company. Archived from the original on 8 October 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008. Colton mistakenly refers to the ship as Panamanian.
- ^ a b Cochran and Ginger, p. 358.
- ^ a b c d e f g Cochran and Ginger, p. 365.
- ^ .
- ^ a b c Cochran and Ginger, p. 357.
- ^ http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/173299.htm
- ^ a b Gleaves, pp. 258–59.
- ^ "California cargo of produce shipped to East". Los Angeles Times. 3 October 1914. p. II–8.
- ^ Hovey, p. 78.
- ^ Cochran and Ginger, p. 355–56.
- ^ "American-Hawaiian Steamship Co". Los Angeles Times. 13 April 1914. p. I–4.
- ^ "American-Hawaiian new steamships". The Wall Street Journal. 6 May 1912. p. 6.
- ^ a b Cochran and Ginger, p. 360.
- ^ Cochran and Ginger, p. 361.
- ^ Cochran and Ginger, p. 362.
- ^ a b Krenzelok, Greg. "Newport News Animal Transport ship List overseas to France during WW1". Retrieved 21 August 2008.
- ^ Crowell and Wilson, pp. 313–14.
- ^ Crowell and Wilson, p. 561.
- ^ Crowell and Wilson, p. 316.
- Naval Historical Center. "Minnesotan". DANFS.
- ^ Cochran and Ginger, p. 363
- ^ "Yesterday's foreign trade record in and out of Los Angeles Harbor". Los Angeles Times. 13 April 1923. p. I–15.
- ^ Mansfield, J. Carroll (18 June 1926). "Photographic Tie-ups With the Day's Local and Foreign News". Los Angeles Times. p. 6.
- ^ United Press (30 April 1940). "Mutiny is charged to crew on coast". The New York Times. p. 20.
- ^ "Panaman steams north after so-called mutiny". Los Angeles Times. 30 April 1940. p. 6.
- ^ "Union official hurls threat at inquiry into ship revolt". Los Angeles Times. 1 May 1940. p. 10.
- ^ a b "Port Arrivals/Departures: Panaman". Arnold Hague's Ports Database. Convoy Web. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
- ^ "Ship races for Manila with 2 ill with polio". Chicago Daily Tribune. 20 December 1946. p. 24.
- ^ "USN Ships: USS Panaman (ID # 3299), 1918–1919". Online Library of Selected Images. Navy Department, Naval Historical Center. 28 June 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
Bibliography
- OCLC 216113867.
- OCLC 18696066.
- OCLC 976757.
- Hovey, Edmund Otis (1907). "The Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Tehuantepec National Railway". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 39 (2). New York: OCLC 2097765.
- Naval Historical Center. "Minnesotan". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
- Naval Historical Center. "Panaman". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 21 August 2008.