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SS President Coolidge
History
SS President CoolidgeUnited States
NamePresident Coolidge
NamesakeCalvin Coolidge
Owner
  • Dollar Steamship Lines (1931–1937)
  • American President Lines (1937–1942)
Operator
  • Dollar Steamship Lines (1931–1937)
  • American President Lines (1937–1942)
Port of registrySan Francisco[1]
RouteSan Francisco – Kobe – Shanghai – Manila[5]
Ordered26 October 1929[4]
BuilderNewport News Shipbuilding[1]
CostUS$8,017,690[citation needed]
Yard number340[3]
Laid down22 April 1930
Launched21 February 1931
Sponsored byMrs. Calvin C. Coolidge
Completed1 October 1931 (delivered)
HomeportSan Francisco
Identification
  • official number 231219[1]
  • signal code MJPF (until 1933)[1]
  • Call sign KDMX (from 1934)[2]
FateSunk by mines, 26 October 1942[3]
General characteristics
TypeOcean liner, then troopship
Tonnage
  • 21,936 GRT[1]
  • 13,029 NRT[1]
Length
  • 615.0 ft (187.5 m)[1] p/p
  • 653 ft (199 m) o/a[7]
Beam81.0 ft (24.7 m)[1]
Depth52.0 ft (15.8 m)[1]
Decks9
Installed power12 Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers
Propulsionturbo-electric transmission
Speed
  • 20.5 knots (38 km/h)[3]
  • or 21 knots (39 km/h)[7]
Range14,400 mi (23,200 km)[6]
Capacity
  • 1,260 all classes (initial service)
  • 350 first class
  • 150 special/intermediate class
  • 988 passengers (modified)[8]
  • First class: 305
  • Tourist class: 133
  • Third class: 402
Troops
  • 3,586[6]
  • 5,000 (number aboard at sinking)[6]
Crew300 (initial service, passenger ship)
Notessister ship: SS President Hoover

SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in 1931. She was operated by Dollar Steamship Lines until 1938, and then by American President Lines until 1941. She served as a troopship from December 1941 until October 1942, when she was sunk by mines in Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base, part of current-day Vanuatu. President Coolidge had a sister ship, SS President Hoover, completed in 1930 and lost when she ran aground in a typhoon in 1937.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1933. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1934. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Pablobini; Vleggert, Nico (10 January 2012). "SS President Coolidge (+1942)". WreckSite. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Part One: Robert Dollar and the SS President Hoover". SS President Hoover. The Takao Club. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Part Two: The Wreck of the SS President Hoover". SS President Hoover. The Takao Club. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II (PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association. p. 136. LCCN 47004779. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  7. ^ a b Talbot-Booth 1942, p. 376.
  8. ^ "Traveling in style". Vessel History. American President Lines. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.

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