USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72)
Susan B. Anthony at Oran, 5 July 1943
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| Namesake: | Susan B. Anthony |
| Owner: | Grace Steamship Company |
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| Port of registry: | New York |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
| Launched: | March 1930, as SS Santa Clara |
| Acquired: | chartered 7 August 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 7 September 1942, as USS Susan B. Anthony |
| Out of service: | 7 June 1944 |
| Struck: | 29 July 1944 |
| Homeport: | New York |
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| Honors and awards: |
3 service stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | mined 7 June 1944 |
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| Displacement: | 16,000 short tons (15,000 t) |
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| Beam: | 63 ft 9 in (19.4 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Depth: | 34.4 ft (10.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,660 NHP |
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| Speed: | 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 158 officers and men |
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USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) was a turbo-electric ocean liner, Santa Clara, of the Grace Steamship Company that was built in 1930. Santa Clara was turned over to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 28 February 1942 and operated by Grace Lines as agent for WSA as a troop ship making voyages to the South Pacific. The ship was chartered to the Navy on 7 August 1942 for operation as a United States Navy transport ship. The ship was sunk 7 June 1944 off Normandy by a mine while cruising through a swept channel with all 2,689 people aboard being saved.
The New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey completed the ship in March 1930 and named her the SS Santa Clara.
Santa Clara had six water tube boilers with a combined heating surface of 28,800 square feet (2,680 m2) and a working pressure of 300 lbf/in2.Santa Clara was turbo-electric: her boilers supplied steam to two turbo generators which fed current to electric motors connected to her twin propeller shafts.General Electric made her turbo generators and propulsion motors, and her power output was rated at 2,660 NHP
Santa Clara gave more than a decade of civilian service. Notable passengers included Walt Disney and his staff in 1941 had been in Chile researching for their film The Three Caballeros. They left Valparaíso on the Santa Clara on 4 October and reached New York on 20 October.
On 28 February 1942 Santa Clara was delivered at New York to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) by Grace Lines with that line operating the ship as a WSA transport allocated to Army transportation requirements under a general agency agreement. On 11 March the agreement terms were changed to bareboat charter by WSA.
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