SS Santa Paula (1932)
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Sister ship SS Santa Rosa in Grace Line livery.
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| Name: | SS Santa Paula |
| Operator: | Grace Line (1932-1941, 1947-1958) |
| Port of registry: | New York |
| Route: | New York - Havana - Cristobal - the Panama Canal - Balboa - Puntarenas - La Libertad - San Jose de Guatemala - Mazatlan - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Seattle. |
| Ordered: | 1930 |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Yard number: | 122 |
| Completed: | December 1932 |
| Maiden voyage: | 30 January 1933 |
| Out of service: | 1958 |
| Identification: | IMO 5002041 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1961 |
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| Name: | USAT Santa Paula |
| Operator: | War Shipping Administration (1941–46) |
| Port of registry: | New York |
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| Name: | SS Akropolis |
| Operator: | Aegean Steam Navigation Co (Typaldos Line) |
| Acquired: | 1961 |
| In service: | 1961 |
| Out of service: | 1966 |
| Homeport: | Piraeus, Greece |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1971, Eleusis, Greece |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Passenger/Cargo Liner |
| Tonnage: | 9,135 |
| Length: | 508 ft (155 m) |
| Beam: | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines, double reduction geared to twin screws |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Capacity: | 209 First Class, 50 Tourist Class |
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SS Santa Paula (later SS Akropolis) was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built for the Grace Line. She was the second of four sister ships (the others being Santa Elena, Santa Lucia and Santa Rosa) ordered in 1930 from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, NJ. Her regular service route included inter-coastal service between the east coast and the west coast of the USA via the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. She later sailed on cruises from New York to the Caribbean and South America. She was the second of three vessels to bear the name Santa Paula for Grace Line service. (The first Grace Line Santa Paula was a 1916-built ship that was sold in 1925 and sunk in 1943.)
Designed by Gibbs & Cox, Santa Paula and her sisters featured their signature winged funnel. The ships were exceptionally powerful and could achieve 18 knots (33 km/h) with only three boilers in use. The main engines were twin steam turbines, double reduction geared to twin screws. The screws turned inward, which made the ships awkward to maneuver. The dining room was on the promenade deck between the two funnels and had a retractable roof to let passengers dine under the tropical sky. All public rooms were on the promenade deck. The dining room formed an atrium stretching up two and a half decks to the retractable dome. Grace Line employed female dining room waitresses instead of male stewards. First class cabins were outside and had twin beds and private baths.
Santa Paula started her maiden voyage on 30 January 1933 from Seattle, WA and made 12 port calls en route to New York via the Panama Canal. The new Santas offered 19-day cruises every two weeks between Seattle, WA along the California, Mexico, Latin America, through the Panama Canal to Havana en route to New York. In the late 1930s until WWII Santa Paula made 16-day cruises to the Caribbean and South America, and later 12-day Caribbean cruises.
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