SS Montanan
6,649 GRTSS Montanan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. In World War I, USAT Montanan carried cargo and animals to France, and was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the U.S. entered the war in April 1917. In August 1918, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-90 500 nmi west of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France, while it took part in another eastbound convoy.
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6,649 GRTSS Montanan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. In World War I, USAT Montanan carried cargo and animals to France, and was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the U.S. entered the war in April 1917. In August 1918, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-90 500 nmi west of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France, while it took part in another eastbound convoy. Of the 86 men aboard the ship, 81 were rescued by a convoy escort; five men died in the attack. On 2 December 1913, Montanan approached a Japanese warship, which fired a warning shot for Montanan to stop. When the ship stopped, Japanese officers boarded Montanan and returned to their ship without naming the type or the name of the warship which had been searching for a German warship. In April 1914, the Huerta-led Mexican government closed the Tehuantespec National Railway to American shipping.
This loss of access, coupled with the fact that the Panama canal was not yet open, caused American- Hawaiian to sailing to its historic return route around South America via the Straits of Magellan in late April. With the opening of the Canal on 15 August, American-hawaiian switched to the canal route on the Pacific coast of Mexico. On December 2, 1914, while headed down the Pacific Coast of Mexico with a cargo of dried fruits and canned goods, aJapanese warship approached Montanan. The Japanese officers in a launch headed to Montanan boarded the ship and returned without identifying the type of warship they were searching for, which was thought to be a German ship. Montanan sailed in this service on the east side of North America. In October 1913, she ran aground on Mantanilla Reef, north of The Bahamas, and put in for repairs after a return trip to New York.
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