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President Cleveland |
Name: SS President Cleveland Namesake: Grover Cleveland Operator: American President Lines Route: Trans-Pacific Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co, Alameda, California Yard number: 9509 Laid down: 28 August 1944 Launched: 23 June 1946 Completed: 1947 Identification: Official number: 254296 Fate: scrapped 1974 General characteristics Tonnage: ? 15,359 GT ? 10,431 DWT Displacement: 23,504 long tons (23,881 t) Length: ? 609 ft 6 in (185.78 m) o/a ? 573 ft (175 m) p/p Beam: 75 ft 6 in (23.01 m) Draft: 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m) Installed power: 20,000 hp (14,914 kW) Propulsion: ? turbo-electric transmission; ? twin screw Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) Capacity: ? 579 passengers (379 first class, 200 economy class) ? 193,984 cubic feet (5,493 m3) cargo Notes: sister ship: SS President Wilson SS President Cleveland was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the Maritime Commission during World War II, as one of the Admiral-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral D. W. Taylor (AP-128). The ship was laid down on 28 August 1944 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Alameda, California, but was cancelled on 16 December 1944. Redesigned for passenger service long before, she was launched on 23 June 1946 as President Cleveland, completed in 1947, and bareboat chartered to American President Lines. One of the ship's most famous passengers was the Nobel Prize?winning author Sigrid Undset, who fled the Nazis by travelling across Russia and sailed to the USA on the President Cleveland. The ship was featured in a 1962 Britannica Films production called "The Seaport", filmed in San Francisco. She was sold to Oceanic Cruise Development, Inc. (C.Y. Tung Group) on 9 February 1973, and renamed Oriental President. The ship was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1974. |
Username | surveychile |
Armatore | APL |
Ship manager | APL |
Numero IMO | 254296 |
Classificazione | Passenger / Cargo Ship. |
Cantiere e anno di costruzione | 1947 Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co |
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Aggiunta il | 20/12/2015 |
Dimensioni | 1200 x 566 |
visite | 1750 |