SS Dakotan
6,537 GRTSS Dakotan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the United States entered the war in 1917. The ship ran aground off the coast of Mexico in 1923 but was freed and towed to port for repairs. In 1969, the Soviet government scrapped the ship, which had been part of its merchant fleet since the 1930s.
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6,537 GRTSS Dakotan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the United States entered the war in April 1917. During World War I, the ship carried cargo and animals to France. Near the end of that war, she was transferred to the U.S. Navy and commissioned as USS DakOTan. In World War II, the vessel was transferred by the War Shipping Administration to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. She remained a part of the Soviet merchant fleet into the late 1960s. The ship ran aground off the coast of Mexico in 1923 but was freed and towed to port for repairs. In 1969, the Soviet government scrapped the ship, which had been part of its merchant fleet since the 1930s. It is not known whether the ship was originally slated for transport via Tehuantepec to Cristóbal to pick up a cargo of sugar that had been originally slated to be carried on the still-unopened Panama Canal. There she loaded 127 American refugees from sugar plantations in the area and then loaded onto the Huerta-led American National Railway to Veracruz, Mexico, for transport to American.
There was no indication in the newspaper that this mission was completed or whether it was intended to be completed or returned to American- Hawaiian or to the New York Times. It was the second ship built under the original contract. The contract cost of the ships was set at the construction cost plus an 8% profit for Maryland Steel, but with a maximum cost of USD 640,000 per ship. The ship had a deadweight tonnage of 10,175 LT DWT and a storage capacity of 492,519 cubic feet. A single steam engine with oil-fired boilers driving a single screw propeller provided her power; her speed was 15 knots. The steamer had accommodations for 18 officers, 40 crewmen, and could carry up to 16 passengers. She was 428 feet 9 inches in length and 53 feet 6 inches abeam, and had a cargo capacity of 50,000 cargo tonnage and 6,537 gross register tons.
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