SS Mongolia (1903)

For other ships with the same name, see SS Mongolia.

SS Mongolia by Fred Pansing
History
United States
Ordered18 December 1900
BuilderNew York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden
Yard number5
Laid down7 June 1902
Launched25 July 1903
CompletedJanuary 1904
CommissionedMay 1918
DecommissionedSeptember 1919
Maiden voyage7 May 1904
In service1903–1946
Renamed
  • President Fillmore (1929),
  • Panamanian (1940)
FateScrapped 1946 (Shanghai, China)
General characteristics
Tonnage13,369 gross register tons[2]
Displacement26,500 tons[1]
Length615 ft 8 in (187.66 m)[2]
Beam65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)[3]
Draft33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)[3]
PropulsionScotch boilers, steam quadruple expansion engines (10,000 shaft HP at 80 RPM); twin screws[1]
Speed16 knots[5]
Capacity
  • 1,712 passengers (as SS Mongolia)[5]
  • 4,800 troops (as USS Mongolia)[1]
Crew130[4]
Armament(March 1917 - September 1919) 3 × 6"/40 caliber guns[1] with Navy gun crews

SS Mongolia was a 13,369-ton passenger-and-cargo liner originally built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1904. She later sailed as USS Mongolia (ID-1615) for the U.S. Navy, as SS President Fillmore for the Dollar Line and as SS Panamanian for Cia Transatlantica Centroamericano.

  1. ^ a b c d Silverstone, Paul (2013). The New Navy, 1883-1922. New York: Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 9781135865429.
  2. ^ a b Marine Engineering (1904). "Steamship Mongolia". Marine Engineering. 9 (April 1904). New York: Marine Engineering Incorporated: 151–159.
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