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Princess Matoika (SP 2290)


Transport: Built in 1900 as Kiautschouby Vulcan, Stettin, Germany; Launched 14 September 1900; Completed 14 December 1900; Sold in February 1904 to North German Lloyd, Bremen, Germany and renamed Princess Alice; Acquired by the Navy 6 April 1917; Commissioned Princess Matoika (SP 2290), (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown) and transferred to the War Department; Sold in 1920 to the U.S. Mail Steamship Co.; Sold in August 1922 to the United States Lines, New York; Renamed President Arthur in 1922; Sold in 1925 to the American Palestine Line, New York and renamed White Palace; Sold again in 1925 to C. L. Dimon, New York; Sold in 1926 to the Los Angeles Steamship Co.; Renamed City of Honolulu in 1927; Sold for scrap 25 May 1930 at Osaka, Japan.

Specifications: Displacement 20,500 t.; Length 544' 11"; Beam 61'; Draft 29' 6"; Speed 16 kts.; Complement 449; Armament four 6"; Propulsion 9,000 ihp, type IV expansion engine (new boilers installed in 1926 increasing ihp to 11,000 ihp, two shafts.


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Princess Matoika 64k c. 1917
Princess Matoika somewhere in the Atlantic
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Princess Matoika 128k 20 December 1918
St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France
Men of the 43rd Railway Artillery going aboard Princess Matoika headed bachk to the United States
National Archives
Princess Matoika 131k 20 December 1918
St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France
Princess Matoika entering locks in St. St. Nazaire, France
National Archives
Princess Matoika 142k Undated Post Card showing President Arthur .

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