SS President Hoover

History

United States
Name:	President Hoover
Namesake:	Herbert Hoover
Owner:	Dollar Steamship Lines
Operator:	Dollar Steamship Lines
Port of registry:	San Francisco
Route:	San Francisco – Kobe – Shanghai – Manila or San Francisco – Honolulu – Manila
Ordered:	26 October 1929
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding
Yard number:	339
Launched:	9 December 1930
Completed:	1930
Out of service:	12 December 1937
Homeport:	San Francisco
Identification:	official number 221058 code letters MCLB (until 1933) call sign KDMW (from 1934)
Fate:	ran aground, written off and scrapped in situ
General characteristics
Type:	ocean liner
Tonnage:	21,936 GRT 12,986 NRT
Length:	615.0 ft (187.5 m)p/p 654 ft 3 in (199.42 m) o/a
Beam:	81.0 ft (24.7 m)
Draft:	34 ft (10 m)
Depth:	52.0 ft (15.8 m)
Installed power:	26,500 shp
Propulsion:	turbo-electric transmission; twin screw
Speed:	20.5 knots (38 km/h) cruising; 22.2 knots (41 km/h) maximum
Capacity:	988 passengers: 214–307 1st Class 133 Special Class 170 Third Class 380 Steerage Class Cargo: 7 cargo holds, total volume 608,850 cubic feet (17,241 m³), including 1 70,000 cubic feet (2,000 m³)refrigerated hold and space for 100 cars
Crew:	324 (1930); 330 (1937)
Sensors and processing systems:	direction finding equipment
Notes:	sister ship: President Coolidge

20.5 knots (38 km/h) cruising;

SS President Hoover was a Dollar Steamship Lines ocean liner. She was completed in 1930 and provided a trans-Pacific service between the USA and the Far East. In 1937 she ran aground on an island off Formosa (now known as Taiwan) during a typhoon and was declared a total loss. She had a sister ship, President Coolidge, that was completed in 1931, was made a troopship in 1941 and was lost after striking a mine while attempting to enter the harbor at Espiritu Santo in 1942.

Dollar Lines ordered both ships on 26 October 1929. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia, USA built the two ships, completing President Hoover in 1930 and President Coolidge in 1931. They were the largest merchant ships built in the USA up to that time.First Lady Lou Henry Hoover launched and christened President Hoover on December 9, 1930.

Each ship had turbo-electric transmission, with a pair of steam turbo generators generating current that powered propulsion motors on the twin propeller shafts. General Electric built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for President Coolidge but Westinghouse built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for President Hoover. 12 oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox high-pressure boilers supplied the steam for President Hoover's turbo-generators. The electric propulsion motors produced 26,500 shp at 133 RPM.

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