&sq=&lang=&file=File:SS_St._Louis.jpg) St. Louis seen off New York in 1900.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | St. Louis |
| Owner | International Navigation Company |
| Operator | American Line |
| Route | |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 277 |
| Launched | 12 November 1894 |
| In service | 1895 |
| Out of service | 1918 |
| Homeport | New York City |
| Fate |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS St. Louis |
| Commissioned | 24 April 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 2 September 1898 |
| Fate | Returned to owners, 1898 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Louisville |
| Acquired | 17 April 1918 |
| Commissioned | 24 April 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 9 September 1919 |
| Fate | Returned to owners, 1919. Scrapped 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger ship / Auxiliary cruiser / Troopship |
| Displacement | 14,910 long tons (15,149 t) |
| Length | 554 ft (169 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 377 |
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SS St. Louis was a passenger liner built in 1894 and sponsored by the wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. She entered merchant service in 1895, operating between New York and Southampton, England. St. Louis was registered in the United States and owned by the International Navigation Company of New York City. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy during both the Spanish–American War (when she was renamed USS St. Louis) and World War I (when she was renamed USS Louisville).[Note 1] After the ship reverted to its original name in 1919, she caught fire and was scrapped in Genoa in 1924.
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