Category:President Taylor (ship, 1921)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Design 1095 troop transport; passenger / cargo ship
- Built by: New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey
- Yard No: 246
- USSB No: 2587
- Keel laid: 1919.05.22
- Launched: 1920.07.31
- Completed: 1921.03.07
- Length over all: 502.1 ft
- Beam: 62.2 ft
- GT: 10508
- DWT: 11310
- Sister ships: Old North State, Creole State, Panhandle State, Wolverine State, Centennial State, Blue Hen State
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- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov
History
[edit]- 1921 Named Granite State; Flag: United States
- Official number: 221054
- Call sign: MCKW
- Port: San Francisco
- Owner: U.S. Shipping Board
- Operator: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
- 1923 Renamed President Polk; Flag: United States
- Call sign: MCKW, from 1934 KDOZ
- Port: San Francisco
- Owner: Dollar Steamship Lines
- 1938 Owner: American President Lines
- 1940 Renamed President Taylor; Flag: United States
- Call sign: KDOZ
- Port: San Francisco
- Owner: American President Lines
- 1941.12 Requisitioned by War Shipping Administration as troop transport
- 1942.02.14 Grounded on Canton Island (today part of Kiribati), never refloated
- 1954 Scrapped
Media in category "President Taylor (ship, 1921)"
The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
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Phoenix Island - Phoenix Island - DPLA - 4bc9486c31fcf259318a8e504e8b063e.jpg 6,843 × 5,347; 13.95 MB
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Phoenix Island - Phoenix Island - NARA - 68157197.jpg 6,843 × 5,347; 15.81 MB
Categories:
- Ships built in 1921
- Ships built at New York Shipbuilding Corporation
- Ships of American President Lines
- Troop transports of the War Shipping Administration
- Passenger ships of the United States
- Ships registered in San Francisco
- Ships with 1 funnel
- Two-masted ships
- Ships sunk in 1942
- Ships scrapped in 1954
- Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean