USA - USSB 1014 SS American Legion General Arrangement (1921)
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- Title
- USA - USSB 1014 SS American Legion General Arrangement (1921)
- Author
- Munson Steamship Line
- Publication year listed
- 1921
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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- Free online reader; no registration required
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USA - USSB 1014 SS American Legion General Arrangement (1921)
Author: New York Shipbuilding Co, Camden, New Jersey
Year: 1921
USA - SS American Legion Passenger Cargo Ship 535 Type EFC 1029 USSB nr: 1014 official nr: 221478 yard nr: 242 yard: New York Shipbuilding Co, Camden, New Jersey yard nr: 1835 laid down: launched: october 11 1919 completed: july 15 1921 15/7/1921: - Delivered as American Legion to the United States Shipping Board (USSB), managed by Munson Steamship Line, New York 18/12/1925: - Sold to Munson Steamship Line, for operation between New York and South America 13/3/1939: - Returned to the U.S. Maritime Commission Reserve Fleet for lay up at Patuxent River, MD. Removed from the Reserve Fleet and renovated as a troopship 21/2/1939: - Acquired by the U.S. Army Transport Service,renamed USAT American Legion. 26/8/1941: - Decommissioned and transferred to the US Navy. Commissioned AP-35 USS American Legion. Converted to Naval Transport by Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, New York 1/2/1943: - Redesignated Attack Transport APA-17 20/3/1946 - Decommissioned at Olympia, WA., and returned to the War Department 28/3/1946 - Struck from the Naval Register 5/2/1948: - Sold for scrapping to Zidell Ship Dismantling Co, Portland Oregon SS American Legion on Wikipedia USS American Legion on Navsource