SS Northern Pacific
SS Northern Pacific in harbor, probably at the time of her completion in 1914.
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| Name: | Northern Pacific |
| Owner: | Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company |
| Builder: | |
| Laid down: | 23 September 1913 |
| Launched: | 17 October 1914 |
| Completed: | 1915 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Navy |
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| Name: | USS Northern Pacific |
| Builder: | |
| Laid down: | 23 September 1913 |
| Launched: | 17 October 1914 |
| Completed: | 1915 |
| Acquired: | 17 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 August 1919 |
| Fate: | Transferred to War Department for use by U.S. Army |
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| Name: | USAT Northern Pacific |
| Owner: | War Department |
| Operator: | United States Army |
| Acquired: | 20 August 1919 |
| In service: | 20 August 1919 |
| Out of service: | 22 November 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold 2 February 1922; burned and sank during delivery, 8 February 1922 |
| General characteristics U.S. Navy | |
| Type: | transport |
| Displacement: | 9,708 t |
| Length: | 525 ft 8 in (160.22 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft 1 in (19.23 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam engines |
| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h) |
| Complement: | 371 |
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SS Northern Pacific was built as a passenger ship at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company. Northern Pacific, along with sister ship Great Northern, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the Great Northern Railway Lines and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915. The ship was acquired on 17 September 1917 for use as a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I, commissioned USS Northern Pacific and later, after transfer to the United States Army, as the Army transport USAT Northern Pacific. She was destroyed by fire in 1922.
Northern Pacific and sister ship Great Northern were built by William Cramp & Sons for the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company, Astoria, Oregon to the order of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company to serve between Astoria and San Francisco. Contracts for both ships were let on 26 April 1913 with keel laying for Northern Pacific on 23 September 1913, the day after Great Northern, and launch on 17 October 1914 with service due to start in March 1915.
Both ships were designed for 856 passengers and 2,185 tons of freight with a 23 knot speed making possible the run between the ports in 25–26 hours, equal to the time for an overland route, under favorable conditions and thus allowing direct service to San Francisco from the east using Great Northern Railway Lines. Both ships were classed A100 according to British Lloyds and met the latest requirements of the United States Steamboat Inspection Service.
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