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Santa Olivia (SP 3125)


Santa Barbara Class Cargo Ship: Built in 1918 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA; Acquired by the Navy on completion, (date unknown); Commissioned Santa Olivia (SP 3125), 1 July 1918 at Philadelphia; Decommissioned 21 July 1919 at Brooklyn, NY and returned to her owner, the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Co., New York; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Renamed Kansan and Jackstar, (dates unknown); Scrapped in 1955.

Specifications: Displacement 13,340 t.; Length 420' 6"; Beam 53' 9"; Draft 28' 4"; Depth of hold 36' 8"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 98; Armament one 6" and one 6-pounder.


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Santa Olivia 83k Photographed upon completion, circa July 1918. Location is probably the Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is painted with a disruptive camouflage pattern.
USN Photo NH 100996
Naval Historical Center
Santa Olivia 97k Photographed in 1919.
Courtesy of the Caraway Company, Rutterford, N.J., 1936.
USN Photo NH 96242
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History: Santa Olivia (SP-3125), a single-screw, steel freighter, was built during 1918 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Atlantic and Pacific Steam Ship Co. of New York, was taken over by the Navy upon completion; and commissioned on 1 July 1918 at Philadelphia, Lt. Comdr. George H. Miles, USNRF, in command.

Santa Olivia was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) upon commissioning. Departing from Philadelphia on 15 July 1918 for New York, Santa Olivia made two round-trip voyages to Europe before the war's end on 11 November 1918. Sailing from New York each time, she carried a total of 10,773 tons of general cargo to Marseilles on the French Mediterranean coast.

Detached from NOTS on 20 December 1918 at New York, Santa Olivia was assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force, Atlantic Fleet. She took part in the return of United States troops from the war zone making four round-trip voyages between 27 December 1918 and 9 June 1919. Santa Olivia was decommissioned on 21 July 1919 at the Grace Line Pier, Brooklyn, N.Y., and simultaneously returned to her owner. She remained under United States mercantile registry under the names Santa Olivia, Kansan, and Jackstar until scrapped during 1955.


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