USAT Warren
USAT Warren
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History | |
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United States | |
Name |
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Owner |
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Builder | AG Vulcan Stettin |
Launched | 24 August 1889 as Scandia |
Acquired | by U.S.A.QM: 5 July 1898 |
Identification |
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Fate | Destroyed by fire at dock in 1924 and was scrapped. |
General characteristics [1] | |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | Army 4,243 tons[2] |
Length | 370.7 ft (113.0 m)registry[3][4] |
Beam | 44.3 ft (13.5 m)[3][4] |
Draft | Army 26.5 ft (8.1 m)[2] |
Depth | 26.5 ft (8.1 m)[3][4] |
Propulsion | Triple expansion steam engine[3] |
Speed |
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Complement | 148[4] |
Notes | Major overhaul fiscal year 1916. |
USAT Warren was the former
In 1912 Warren's signal was GWCD with radio call letters ATW.[6][7]
Scandia
On 28 August 1892 the Scandia left
USAT Warren
Service history
On 17 July 1899 troops from Colorado boarded the transport in Manila for return to the United States as a typhoon was building in the South China Sea forcing overnight suspension of boarding. On the 18th boarding was completed and the ship sailed, and with a period taking shelter in the lee of Formosa, reached Nagasaki 25 July 1899. After coaling the ship sailed on 27 July reaching Yokohama on 30 July and departing on 2 August to reach San Francisco on 16 August. The ship docked the next day after clearing quarantine.[14]
On 30 December 1900 Warren while getting underway at Manila for a voyage to the United States ran into the British ship Mogul. Warren was found to be at fault with the first assistant engineer, in charge, turning control over to the second assistant engineer who did not follow engine orders. Both engineers were dismissed from the transport service. Claims were disputed in particulars but referred to Congress for final payment.[15]
In the summer of 1902 the ship transported Dr. Sheldon Jackson from Seattle to Nome in connection with his work with introducing reindeer into Alaska.[16] Forty-three Filipino political prisoners had been deported to Guam by General Arthur MacArthur Jr. for their loyalty to the Philippine Revolution during the Philippine–American War. On 21 September 1902 Warren embarked most of the political prisoners exiled to Guam for return to the Philippines.[17]
Warren, on the way from Manila to San Francisco, entered Honolulu on 10 July 1905 with a missing propeller blade. Honolulu was the normal coaling stop and the ship had entered the port four years earlier with two missing blades. In that case the ship had left Honolulu for Manila and returned after several days for repairs. Those were done by piling coal and pig iron on the forward decks and removing heavy material from aft so that the stern was raised out of the water enough for the repairs. The same was planned in this case, though the ship might be able to make San Francisco at reduced speed without the repair.[18][note 2]
During August 1914 the
The general commanding U.S. Army forces in the Philippines was directed on 3 August 1918 to send the 27th and 31st Infantry Regiments, a field hospital, ambulance company and a telegraph company to Vladivostok with Warren,
On 28 December 1922, at Manila, the ship was sold to the Le Seug Giap and Company.[2][21]
Sinking
In May 1924 Warren[note 3] sank for unknown reasons on the Huangpu River in the harbor of Shanghai, next to the pier, and was finally scrapped in 1929.[2][22]
Footnotes
- ^ Others assigned to this service as of 1916 were the transports Liscum and Merritt.
- ^ A photo with the referenced article shows the ship during the earlier repair with the forward decks piled with coal.
- ^ Reference is unclear if the name Warren was used after sale. It refers to "former U.S. transport Warren" without designating the ship's name at the time.
References
- ^ "Ship Descriptions - S". TheShipsList.
- ^ LCCN 2010022326. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Lloyds (1896). "Lloyd's Register (1896-1897)". Lloyd's Register. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Fiftieth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Year ended June 30, 1918 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation. 1918. p. 496. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b Army Appropriation Bill, 1918. House: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1917. p. 368. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ Forty-Fourth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Year ended June 30, 1912 (Code List of the Quartermaster's Department) (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Navigation. 1912. p. 96 (Code List of the Quartermaster's Department). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Wireless Telegraph Stations of the World, Including Shore Stations, Merchant Vessels, Revenue Cutters, and Vessels, Revenue Cutters, and Vessels of the United States Navy". U.S. Government Printing Office. July 16, 1912 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Scandia the Worse Plague Ship of All". The Evening World. September 10, 1892. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ^ SS Moravia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
- ^ SS Wyoning- Retrieved 2019-07-21
- ^ SS Normannia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
- ^ SS Rugia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
- ^ SS Stubbenhuk-Retrieved 2019-07-21
- LCCN 2006002332. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ Gallatly, Hankey & Co. No. 289, House of Representatives, 58th Congress, 2d Session (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. January 12, 1904. pp. 1–20. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ Jackson, Sheldon (July 16, 1903). Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 25, 38, 143. Retrieved 7 April 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ O'Connor, Lopaka (May 13, 2020). ""America's St. Helena": Filipino Exiles and U.S. Empire on Guam, 1901–03". Center for the Humanities News. St. Louis: Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Arrival of Transport Warren" (PDF). The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Vol. 52, no. 7152. Honolulu, Hawaii: The Commercial Journal Advertiser. July 11, 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ Report of The Philippine Commission. Annual Reports, War Department Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 56. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ House, John M. (October 6, 1986). Wolfhounds and Polar Bears in Siberia: America's Military Intervention, 1918—1820 (PDF) (Master of Arts). University of Kansas, Department of History. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "(Advertisement) Ports for Sale, Surplus Property (USAT Warren)". Shipping. Vol. 7, no. 5. New York, N.Y.: Shipping Publishing Company. November 10, 1920. p. 63. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ Newspaper article shown pictured.