SS Cambridge (1919)

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NameCambridge
Owner USSB
Builder Submarine Boat Company, Newark
Yard number57 [1]
Laid down13 March 1919
Launched30 June 1919 [2]
Completed29 August 1919
Homeport Newark
Identification
FateBroken up, 1926
General characteristics
Type Design 1023 Cargo ship
Tonnage
Length324.0 ft (98.8 m) registry length [4]
Beam46.2 ft (14.1 m) [4]
Draft25 ft (7.6 m) [5]
Depth25.0 ft (7.6 m) [4]
Installed power386 NHP
Propulsion
Speed10.5 kn (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) [2]
Range7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) [6]
Crew37 [7]

SSCambridge was a Design 1023 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board immediately after World War I.

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History

She was laid down at yard number 57 at the Newark, New Jersey shipyard of the Submarine Boat Corporation (SBC), one of 132 Design 1023 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board (there were 154 ships of the class built in total). [5] She was launched on 30 June 1919, [2] completed in August 1919, [3] and named the Cambridge. [3] [8] Total cost was $1,044,313. [9] In 1925, she was broken up by the Ford Motor Company [3] who purchased 200 vessels from the Shipping Board for $1,706,000 and used the steel to make cars. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ McKellar, p. Part III, 76.
  2. 1 2 3 Marine Review 1920, p. 107.
  3. 1 2 3 4 McKellar, p. Part III, 75.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Year ended June 30, 1923. Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation. 1923. p. 79. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 McKellar, p. Part III, 74.
  6. ↑ Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States. p. 462.
  7. ↑ Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States. p. 18.
  8. ↑ Marine Review 1920, p. 99.
  9. ↑ United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation - Hearings Before The Select Committee of Inquiry into Operations, Policies, and Affairs of the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation. U.S. Government Printing Office. January 1925. p. 4274.
  10. ↑ "Henry Ford's Bargain In Ships". The Literary Digest . August 22, 1925. p. 13.

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