Category:USAT Dix (ship, 1892)

English: Originally SS Samoa, then USAT Dix, then SS Grace Dollar

Ship

Type: Transport
Built by: William Doxford & Sons Shipbuilding Co., Pallion, Sunderland, England
- Launched: 1892-10-22
Length over all: 436 ft 4 in
Beam: 52 ft 1 in
Draft: 23 ft 8 in
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1892-10-22: launched as the SS Samoa, William Doxford & Sons Shipbuilding Co. Pallion, Sunderland, England
1900-12-31: Purchased by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department from Mr. Ansil L. White at Hong Kong. Assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service.
1901-02: renamed USAT Dix, after Major General John Adams Dix, commanding general of the Departments of Maryland and of the East during the Civil War, later Governor of New York.
Assigned to the A.T.S. Pacific Fleet: homeport Fort Mason, California. As a supply ship and animal transport, mainly serviced the Seattle—Honolulu—Manila route with occasional port calls at San Francisco.
1920-02: Transported all horses, mules, and horse drawn equipment supporting the U.S. Army forces in Siberia from Vladivostok to Manila
1920-04-01: Transported part of the last contingent of U.S. troops from Vladivostok to Manila.
1921-12-10: Laid up at Fort Mason, California.
1922-02-06: Ran aground at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay
1922-07-01: Directed by Executive Order to be turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board
1922-11-13: Turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board
1922-12-12: Sold to the Robert Dollar Steamship Co., renamed SS Grace Dollar
1928-11: Scrapped at Kobe, Japan
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