SS Pennsylvanian
6,547 GRTSS Pennsylvanian was a cargo ship built in 1913 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 August 1914. During World War I she was requisitioned by the United States Navy and commissioned as USSPennsylvanian in September 1918, and renamed USS Scranton two months later. The ship was scuttled as part of the breakwater for one of the Mulberry artificial harbors built to support the Normandy Invasion in July 1944.
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6,547 GRTSS Pennsylvanian was a cargo ship built in 1913 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 August 1914. During World War I she was requisitioned by the United States Navy and commissioned as USSPennsylvanian in September 1918, and renamed USS Scranton two months later. After her naval service, her original name was restored. The ship was scuttled as part of the breakwater for one of the Mulberry artificial harbors built to support the Normandy Invasion in July 1944. She had a deadweight tonnage of 10,175 LT DWT and a storage capacity of 491,084 cubic feet. She was powered by a single quadruple expansion steam engine powered by oil-fired boilers that drove a single screw propeller. The engine had cylinders of 25½ inches, 37 inches, 53½ inches and 78 inches diameter by 54 inches stroke. It could propel the ship at a speed of 15 knots.
The final cost of Penn Sylvanian, including financing costs, was USD 70. 35 per deadweightTon, which came out to just under USD 716,000. The contract cost of the ships was set at the construction cost plus an 8% profit for Maryland Steel, with a maximum cost of USD 640,000 each. The final ship built under the original contract was the final ship to be delivered to American- Hawaiian in June 1913, and she was delivered to her owners in June. She sailed in this service on the west side of North America. After the U.S. occupation of Veracruz on 21 April 1914, the Huerta-led Mexican government closed the Tehuantespec National Railway to American shipping. This loss of access, coupled with the opening of the Panama canal, caused American-hawaiian to return in late April to sailing around South America via the Straits of Magellan. In late August 1915, all American- hawaiian ships switched to taking that route.
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