S.S. Callao made over from the old German steamer Sierra Cordoba.
History
Name
Sierra Cordoba
Callao (1917)
Ruth Alexander (1921)[1]
Owner
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Peru
United States Shipping Board
Dollar Line
American President Lines
Port of registry
Bremen, Germany (1913–17)
Callao, Peru (1917–18)
New York/San Francisco (1918–41)
Builder
AG Vulcan Stettin
Fate
Sunk December 1941 off Balikpapan
General characteristics
Tonnage
8,226 GRT[2]
8,135 GRT[1]
Length
461 ft (140.5 m) over all[3]
438 ft (133.5 m) between perpendiculars[2]
Beam
55 ft 9 in (17.0 m)[2]
Draft
26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)[2]
Depth
37 ft 2 in (11.3 m)[2]
Decks
4[2]
Propulsion
2 x Triple expansion steam engines[2]
Speed
13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)[2]
SS Sierra Cordoba was a Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger and cargo ship completed 1913 by AG Vulcan Stettin.[note 1] The ship operated between Bremen and Buenos Aires on the line's South American service and was equipped with wireless and "submarine sounding apparatus" [note 2] with accommodations for 116 first class, 74 second class and 1,270 "between decks" passengers.[4] A description after the ship had been seized and restored in 1919 noted she was among the fastest and best equipped ships of the line with accommodations for 115 first class passengers and 1,572 third and steerage class passengers as well as a crew of 179 officers and men.[3][note 3]
During World War I Sierra Cordoba supplied German raiders, particularly SMS Dresden while hiding in the Straits of Magellan. After that ship and Sierra Cordoba moved northward in the Pacific, where the cruiser met British forces, the German liner interned herself in Callao, Peru, named Callao and later transferred to the United States Shipping Board, refurbished by Panama Canal personnel and briefly placed in commission with the United States Navy as USS Callao (ID-4036) to bring service people home from Europe. The ship was sold, renamed Ruth Alexander in 1923 and put into coastwise passenger and cargo service between Puget Sound and Mexico, typically calling at Seattle, Victoria, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and (by 1931) Ensenada, Mexico, until finally converted to a cargo ship in 1939.
On 9 December 1941 Ruth Alexander arrived in Manila the day after Manila had learned of the coming of war to the Pacific (8 December Manila time). The ship survived bombing raids in Manila harbor before attempting to escape on 28 December, as United States forces were retreating into Bataan, and being bombed and abandoned on 31 December. One crew member was lost, four wounded, and all survivors were picked up by a Dutch Dornier 24 bomber. The ship finally sank on 2 January.
^ abLloyd's Register 1932–33.
^ abcdefghUnited States Shipping Board.
^ abPacific Marine Review (June 1919), p. 161.
^Marine Engineer (January 1913), p. 209.
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