Dollar Steamship Lines
SS President Coolidge
American ocean liner sunk in 1942
History
SS President Coolidge was an American ocean liner that was completed in 1931. She was operated by Dollar Steamship Lines until 1938, and then by American President Lines until 1941. She served as a troopship from December 1941 until October 1942, when she was sunk by mines in Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base, part of current-day Vanuatu. President Coolidge had a sister ship, SS President Hoover, completed in 1930 and lost when she ran aground in a typhoon in 1937.
Text: Wikipedia — SS President Coolidge, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ship Facts & Specifications
Tonnage
21,936 GRT
Length
615 ft p/p
Beam
81 ft
Speed
20.5 knots
Passengers
1,260 all classes (initial service)
Crew
300 (initial service, passenger ship)
Builder
Newport News Shipbuilding
Yard number
340
Launched
21 February 1931
Owner
Dollar Steamship Lines (1931–1937); American President Lines (1937–1942)
Port of registry
San Francisco
Propulsion
turbo-electric transmission
Fate
Sunk by mines, 26 October 1942
