SS Northern Pacific in harbor, probably at the time of her completion in 1914.
History
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Name
Northern Pacific
Owner
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company
Builder
William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number
408
Laid down
23 September 1913
Launched
17 October 1914
Completed
1915
Fate
Transferred to Navy
United States
Name
USS Northern Pacific
Builder
William Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
United States
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[1]
Length
525 ft 8 in (160.22 m)[1]
Beam
63 ft 1 in (19.23 m)[1]
Propulsion
steam engines
Speed
23 knots (43 km/h)
Complement
371[1]
Armament
4 × 6-inch (152-mm) guns
2 × 1-pounder guns
2 × machine guns[1]
Rescue of passengers on January 2, 1919Breeches buoy during the rescue
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.
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