SS Sea Scamp

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History
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NameSea Scamp
Builder Ingalls Shipbuilding
Launched30 April 1943
FateScrapped 1971
General characteristics
Displacement8,348 tons
Length465 ft (142 m)
Beam70 ft (21 m)
Speed18 knots

USAT Sea Scamp was a Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport that saw service in World War II.

She was launched on 30 April 1943 by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract with owner Lykes Brothers Steamship Company.

Voyages

The ship was purchased by Matson Line in 1947 and renamed Hawaiian Packer. The historic Kamchatka earthquake 1952 November 4 16:58:26.0 UTC Magnitude 9.0 generated a tsunami wave in Honolulu harbor which sent a cement barge from its moorings to collide against the freighter. [1] It was sold to U.S. Maritime Commission in 1964 and renamed Pecos in 1966. It was scrapped in 1971. [2]

References

  1. The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (November 2013). "Historic Earthquakes" . Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. shipbuildinghistory (December 2010). "Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula MS". Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2011.