SS Mongolia (1903)

SS Mongolia by Fred Pansing
History
United States
Ordered18 December 1900
BuilderNew York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden
Yard number5
Laid down7 June 1902
Launched25 July 1903
CompletedJanuary 1904
CommissionedMay 1918
DecommissionedSeptember 1919
Maiden voyage7 May 1904
In service1903–1946
Renamed
  • President Fillmore (1929),
  • Panamanian (1940)
FateScrapped 1946 (Shanghai, China)
General characteristics
Tonnage13,369 gross register tons
Displacement26,500 tons
Length615 ft 8 in (187.66 m)
Beam65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)
Draft33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)
PropulsionScotch boilers, steam quadruple expansion engines (10,000 shaft HP at 80 RPM); twin screws
Speed16 knots
Capacity
  • 1,712 passengers (as SS Mongolia)
  • 4,800 troops (as USS Mongolia)
Crew130
Armament(March 1917 - September 1919) 3 × 6"/40 caliber guns with Navy gun crews

SS Mongolia was a 13,369-ton passenger-and-cargo liner originally built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1904. She later sailed as USS Mongolia (ID-1615) for the U.S. Navy, as SS President Fillmore for the Dollar Line and as SS Panamanian for Cia Transatlantica Centroamericano.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.