SS Mongolia (1903)
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For other ships with the same name, see SS Mongolia.
SS Mongolia was a 13,369-ton passenger-and-cargo liner originally built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1904. She later sailed as USS Mongolia (ID-1615) for the U.S. Navy, as SS President Fillmore for the Dollar Line and as SS Panamanian for Cia Transatlantica Centroamericano.
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SS Mongolia by Fred Pansing | |
History | |
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United States | |
Ordered | 18 December 1900 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden |
Yard number | 5 |
Laid down | 7 June 1902 |
Launched | 25 July 1903 |
Completed | January 1904 |
Commissioned | May 1918 |
Decommissioned | September 1919 |
Maiden voyage | 7 May 1904 |
In service | 1903–1946 |
Renamed |
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Fate | Scrapped 1946 (Shanghai, China) |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 13,369 gross register tons[1] |
Displacement | 26,500 tons[2] |
Length | 615 ft 8 in (187.66 m)[1] |
Beam | 65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)[3] |
Draft | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)[3] |
Propulsion | Scotch boilers, steam quadruple expansion engines (10,000 shaft HP at 80 RPM); twin screws[2] |
Speed | 16 knots[4] |
Capacity | |
Crew | 130[5] |
Armament | (March 1917 - September 1919) 3 × 6"/40 caliber guns[2] with Navy gun crews |
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