SS Minnesotan
SS Minnesotan
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| Name: | SS Minnesotan |
| Owner: | American-Hawaiian Steamship Company |
| Port of registry: | Boston |
| Ordered: | September 1911 |
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| Cost: | $668,000 |
| Yard number: | 124 |
| Launched: | 8 June 1912 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss Lubelle Shepard |
| Completed: | September 1912 |
| Identification: | U.S. official number: 210534 |
| Fate: | expropriated by U.S. Army, 1 June 1917 |
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| Name: | USAT Minnesotan |
| Acquired: | 11 September 1917 |
| Fate: | transferred to U.S. Navy, 23 August 1918 |
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| Name: | USS Minnesotan (ID-4545) |
| Acquired: | 23 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 23 August 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 August 1919 |
| Fate: | returned to USSB |
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| Fate: | Scrapped at Bari, 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | cargo ship |
| Tonnage: |
6,617 GRT 10,175 LT DWT |
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| Beam: | 53 ft 6 in (16.31 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 1 in (8.56 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 39 ft 6 in (12.04 m) |
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| Speed: | 14.85 knots (27.50 km/h) |
| Capacity: | Cargo: 490,838 cubic feet (13,899.0 m3) |
| Crew: | 18 officers, 40 crewmen |
| Notes: | Sister ships: Dakotan, Montanan, Pennsylvanian, Panaman, Washingtonian, Iowan, Ohioan |
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| Complement: | 88 |
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6,617 GRT
SS Minnesotan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. During World War I she was known as USAT Minnesotan in service for the United States Army and USS Minnesotan (ID-4545) in service for the United States Navy. She ended her career as the SS Maria Luisa R. under Italian ownership. She was built by the Maryland Steel Company as one of eight sister ships for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, and was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened.
In World War I, USAT Minnesotan carried cargo and animals to France under charter to the U.S. Army from September 1917. When transferred to the U.S. Navy in August 1918, USS Minnesotan continued in the same duties, but after the Armistice she was converted to a troop transport and returned over 8,000 American troops from France. Returned to American-Hawaiian in 1919, Minnesotan resumed inter-coastal cargo service, and, at least twice, carried racing yachts from the U.S. East Coast to California.
During World War II, Minnesotan was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and initially sailed between New York and Caribbean ports. In the latter half of 1943, Minnesotan sailed between Indian Ocean ports. The following year the cargo ship sailed between New York and ports in the United Kingdom, before returning to the Caribbean. In July 1949, American-Hawaiian sold Minnesotan to Italian owners who renamed her Maria Luisa R.; she was scrapped in 1952 at Bari.
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