SS Coast Trader

SS Coast Farmer, the SS Coast Trader sister ship
History
United States
Name	Holyoke Bridge Point Reyes Coast Trader
Owner	1920-1926 USSB 1926-1937 Gulf Pacific Mail Line Ltd 1937-1942 Coastwise Line
Port of registry	New York, New York( United States)
Builder	Submarine Boat Corporation, Newark
Yard number	108
Laid down	30 September 1919
Launched	January 1920
Completed	May 1920
Identification	US Official Number 219588
Fate	Sunk by I-26 in 1942
General characteristics
Type	EFC Design 1023, postwar commercial completion
Tonnage	3,545 GRT 5,350 DWT
Displacement	7,615 tons
Length	335.6 ft (102.3 m) LOA 334 ft (101.8 m) B.P.
Beam	46 ft (14.0 m)
Draft	23 ft (7.0 m)
Depth	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) molded
Installed power	2 Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers, 1,500 hp (1,100 kW)
Propulsion	Westinghouse steam turbine, one quadruple-blade propeller
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)
Crew	57

SS Coast Trader was built as the cargo ship SS Holyoke Bridge in 1920 by the Submarine Boat Company in Newark, New Jersey. The Coast Trader was torpedoed and sank 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) southwest of Cape Flattery, off the Strait of Juan de Fuca in U.S. state of Washington by the Japanese submarine I-26. Survivors were rescued by schooner Virginia I and HMCS Edmundston. She rests on the ocean floor at (48°19′N 125°40′W / 48.317°N 125.667°W / 48.317; -125.667).^[1]