History | |
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Name |
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Owner |
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Port of registry | New York City, United States |
Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Co |
Launched | 4 August 1914 |
Completed | September 1914 |
Out of service | January 1921 |
Identification | |
Fate | Missing since 26 January 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 5,399 GRT, 3,395 NRT |
Length | 420 ft (128 m) |
Beam | 60 ft (18 m) |
Depth | 38 ft (12 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine, 2,000 ihp |
Propulsion | Single screw propeller |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Crew | 42 |
The SS Hewitt was a steel hulled bulk freighter built for the J. S. Emery Steamship Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, as the Pacific. (She had one sister ship named Atlantic.)[1] She was sold to the Union Sulphur Company in 1915 and in 1921 she and her entire crew disappeared without a trace off the southeast coast of the United States.[2]
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