SS Kroonland
SS Kroonland was an ocean liner for International Mercantile Marine from her launch in 1902 until she was scrapped in 1927. When launched, she was the largest U.S. steamship ever built. She became the first ship to issue a wireless distress call at sea when she radioed for help during a storm in 1903. The ship was sold and scrapped at Genoa in 1927, and her remains are still visible today in a museum at the University of New York at New York.
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SS Kroonland was an ocean liner for International Mercantile Marine from her launch in 1902 until she was scrapped in 1927. During World War I, the ship served as United States Army transport USAT Kroonlands through April 1918, and as the Navy auxiliary USS Kro onland from April 1918 to October 1919. When launched, she was the largest U.S. steamship ever built. She became the first ship to issue a wireless distress call at sea when she radioed for help during a storm in 1903. Her hull was nearly all the rivets were set with rivet guns, and she was propelled at up to 17 knots by triple-expansion steam engines. The American pair were the largest steamships built in the United States at the time of their launch, and were the highest tonnage civilian ships ever built by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia. She made six trips carrying troops to France before the Armistice and eight voyages after, transporting nearly 38,000 troops in total. She was scorched in a shipyard fire in January 1920 while she was being refitted for passenger service. The ship was sold and scrapped at Genoa in 1927, and her remains are still visible today in a museum at the University of New York at New York. The liner was the sister ship of Finland and a near sister ship of Vaderland and Zeeland of the same company. She had eleven watertight compartments with reinforced bulkheads, and was designed to remain afloat with a heating area of 22,400 square feet, a grate area of 643 square feet, and a hull area of nearly 22,000 square feet.
In February 1915, she became the largest passenger ship to date to transit the Panama Canal. She inaugurated IMM’s winter New York – Miami service from December 1925 to March 1926, but was laid up in Hoboken, New Jersey, when IMM did not resume the Miami service the following year. She also sailed for IMM’s American Line and Panama Pacific Line for 15 years, and also served as a troopship for the U. S. Army and Navy during World War II. She sailed from New York City to Antwerp on her maiden voyage in June 1902, beginning service on the route she would sail for the next twelve years. In October 1914, Kroon land was detained by British authorities at Gibraltar, and part of her cargo was confiscated amidst diplomatic wrangling between the then-neutral United States and the United Kingdom. In May 1917 Kroon Land was struck by a torpedo, which failed to detonate and only slightly damaged the ship. She returned to transatlantic service until a landslide temporarily closed the canal to navigation. In April 1923, the liner resumed North Atlantic service in April, remaining there until returning to New York – San Francisco service in 1923. She then resumed New York-Miami service in December 1923. In December 1925, the vessel was laid down at Hoboken.
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