 SS Saint Paul under steam
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Saint Paul |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 278 |
| Launched | 10 April 1895 |
| Acquired | by charter, 12 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 20 April 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 2 September 1898 |
| Recommissioned | 27 October 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 14 January 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1923 |
| Notes | Returned to owner, 24 March 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger ship/Auxiliary cruiser |
| Displacement | 14,910 long tons (15,150 t) |
| Length | 553 ft 2 in (168.61 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Speed | 22 kn (25 mph; 41 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1,420 passengers (320 first class, 200 second class, 900 steerage) |
| Complement | 381 officers and enlisted (as naval ship) |
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SS Saint Paul was a trans-Atlantic ocean liner named for the capital of Minnesota.