USS Taurus (AF-25)

History
Name	SS San Benito (1921–42) USS Taurus (1942–45)
Owner	United Fruit Company Steamship Co (1921–30)[1] Balboa Shipping Co, Inc.[2]
Operator	Clark and Service (1921–30)[1] United Fruit Company[2] (1931–42) United States Navy (1942–45)
Port of registry	Glasgow (1921–30) [2] (1931–42) (1942–46)
Builder	Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast[2]
Launched	12 August 1921[4]
Completed	September 1921[4]
Acquired	2 October 1942[4]
Commissioned	28 October 1942[4]
Decommissioned	11 December 1945[4]
Stricken	3 January 1946[4]
Identification	code letters KJNS (until 1930)[1] code letters RXCI (1933)[2] Call sign HPCI (from 1934)[3]
Fate	Scrapped 1953[4]
General characteristics
Tonnage	3,724 GRT[2] tonnage under deck 3,122[2] 2,086 NRT[2]
Displacement	6,600 long tons (6,706 t) full load[4]
Length	325.3 ft (99.2 m)[2]
Beam	46.3 ft (14.1 m)[2]
Draft	24 ft (7.3 m)
Depth	29.2 ft (8.9 m)[2]
Installed power	2,500 shp[4]
Propulsion	BT-H turbo-electric transmission,[2] single screw
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h)[4]
Complement	106 (1944)[4]
Armament	1 × single 4"/50 caliber guns 1 × single 3"/50 caliber guns 6 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts[4]

USS Taurus (AF-25), formerly SS San Benito, was a refrigerated banana boat of the United Fruit Company that may have been the first merchant ship to be built with turbo-electric transmission.^[4] From October 1942 to December 1945 she was a United States Navy stores ship in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II.^[4] She was scrapped in 1953.^[4]