SS Northern Pacific

SS Northern Pacific in harbor, probably at the time of her completion in 1914.
History
Commercial
Name	Northern Pacific
Owner	Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	408
Laid down	23 September 1913
Launched	17 October 1914
Completed	1915
Fate	Transferred to Navy
United States
Name	USS Northern Pacific
Builder	William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laid down	23 September 1913
Launched	17 October 1914
Completed	1915
Acquired	17 September 1917
Commissioned	3 November 1917
Decommissioned	20 August 1919
Fate	Transferred to War Department for use by U.S. Army
United States
Name	USAT Northern Pacific
Owner	War Department
Operator	United States Army
Acquired	20 August 1919
In service	20 August 1919
Out of service	22 November 1921
Fate	Sold 2 February 1922; burned and sank during delivery, 8 February 1922
General characteristics U.S. Navy
Type	transport
Displacement	9,708 t[1]
Length	525 ft 8 in (160.22 m)[1]
Beam	63 ft 1 in (19.23 m)[1]
Propulsion	steam engines
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h)
Complement	371[1]
Armament	4 × 6-inch (152-mm) guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 2 × machine guns[1]

SS Northern Pacific was built as a passenger ship at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company. Northern Pacific, along with sister ship Great Northern, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the Great Northern Railway Lines and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915. The ship was acquired on 17 September 1917 for use as a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I, commissioned USS Northern Pacific and later, after transfer to the United States Army, as the Army transport USAT Northern Pacific. She was destroyed by fire in 1922.