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SS President was a British passenger liner that was the largest ship in the world when she was commissioned in 1840, [1] [2] and the first steamship to founder on the transatlantic run when she was lost at sea with all 136 on board in March 1841. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1840 to 1841. [3]
SS President Wilson was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the United States Maritime Commission during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral F.B. Upham (AP-129), but she was launched just after the war ended. in 1948, The ship was put into service for the American President Lines.
The keel for President Coolidge was laid 22 April 1930 and the ship was delivered 1 October 1931. [9] They were the largest merchant ships built in the United States up to that time. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] Each ship had turbo-electric transmission , with a pair of steam turbo generators generating current that powered propulsion motors on the propeller ...
USS President was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, nominally rated at 44 guns; she was launched in April 1800 from a shipyard in New York City. President was one of the original six frigates whose construction the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized, and she was the
HMS President (1646) was a 26-gun ship purchased in 1646, known as Old President after 1650, and sold in 1656. HMS President (1650) was a 42-gun fourth rate ship launched in 1650, renamed Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt 1666, and broken up 1711. HMS President (1806) was a 38-gun fifth rate ship, originally the French Président, captured in 1806 ...
SS President Hoover was an ocean liner built for the Dollar Steamship Lines.She was completed in 1930 and provided a trans-Pacific service between the US and the Far East
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SS President Roosevelt was an ocean liner in service in the 1920s and 1930s. Originally built as a Harris-class attack transport towards the end of World War I, she entered commercial service after her completion. Having been built as Peninsula State, she was soon renamed President Pierce and then President Roosevelt.