USS Santa Cecilia

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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Santa Cecilia (ID-4008)
Builder
Yard number400
Completed1913
Fatetransferred to U.S. Navy
History
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Santa Cecilia (ID-4008)
Acquired10 March 1919
Commissioned10 March 1919
Decommissioned6 October 1919
Fatereturned to Grace Line, 6 October 1919
General characteristics (as USS Santa Cecilia)
Class and type Santa Cecilia-class freighter
Displacement13,500 t
Length420 ft 2 in (128.07 m)
Beam53 ft 9 in (16.38 m)
Draft28 ft 5 in (8.66 m)
Speed13 knots (24 km/h)

USS Santa Cecilia (ID-4008) was the lead ship of her class of freighters of the United States Navy during World War I. In service for the United States Army she was known as USAT Santa Cecilia. Both before and after her World War I service she was known as SS Santa Cecilia for the Grace Line.

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SS Santa Cecilia, a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter built during 1913 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co. of Philadelphia, was chartered by the United States Army during World War I. Santa Cecilia was taken over by the Navy at New York on 10 March 1919; and commissioned the same day.

Santa Cecilia was one of four U.S. Army ships manned by the Navy in March 1919 after conversion to troop transports by the Army. She sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, on 11 April 1919 for Bordeaux, France, and returned to New York on 9 May with homeward-bound troops. She completed her fourth and last round-trip voyage on 7 September 1919, and was transferred to the United States Shipping Board on 6 October 1919.

Following mercantile service, Santa Cecilia was broken up in 1935.

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