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She was acquired by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway of Portland, Oregon, on 17 September 1917 and commissioned on 3 November 1917 at Bremerton, Washington. [1] Northern Pacific departed San Francisco on 7 March for New York via the Panama Canal.
On February 13, 1947, on a voyage from Ketchikan to Seattle sank on Porter Reef, Shearwater, British Columbia, in Seaforth Channel. [10] SS North Wind a 2,448 ton passenger steamer, was stranded and was lost December 14, 1944 near Simeonof Island under used by the US Army. Built in 1918 by the New York Shipbuilding Company.
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[2] [5] The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway line itself was a joint venture between the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway that would give two ships their names. [6] Contracts for both ships were let on 26 April 1913 with keel laying for Great Northern on 22 September 1913 and launch on 7 July 1914 with service due to ...
SS Java Mail (1948-1969) SS Island Mail (1948-1959) SS Ocean Mail; India Mail (1948-1965) SS China Mail (1948-1959) SS Oregon Mail; SS Schuyler O. Bland (1957-1959) Regular Passenger service ports of call in 1957 for the above: Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Yokohama, Kobe, Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Hong Kong, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Pacific ...
Three ships have borne the name SS Indiana. They are: SS Indiana (1848) - a steamship built in 1848 by F.M. Keating. SS Indiana (1873) - a passenger steamship launched in 1873 by William Cramp & Sons for the American Line. SS Indiana (1905) - a passenger ship launched by Societa Esercizio Bacini in 1905 for Lloyd Italiano
SS Roanoke on a steel cradle at the Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Ship Building Co., Eagle Harbor, Winslow, Washington By 1905, the Roanoke was serving ports in California and Oregon. On November 27, 1905, the ship lost its rudder and stern post while crossing the harbor bar at Eureka, California in heavy seas during an ebb tide.
Deutsche Werft in Hamburg launched Seattle on 28 March 1928 and completed her on 7 June. Bremer Vulkan in Bremen launched her sister ship Portland on 19 April 1928 and completed her on 30 June. [1] Seattle ' s registered length was 461.6 ft (140.7 m), her beam was 61.6 ft (18.8 m) and her depth was