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ID-2999 Siboney

Siboney served both the U. S. Navy and Army.

Cargo/Passenger Ship: Laid down in 1916 as Oriente by William Cramp and Son, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 15 August 1917; Renamed Siboney, 28 February 1918; Acquired by the Navy and commissioned USS Siboney (ID 2999), 8 April 1918; Decommissioned, 10 September 1919, at Hoboken, NJ and returned to her owner, the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.; Acquired by the U.S. Army in 1941 and commissioned USAT Siboney; Converted to a U.S. Army Hospital Ship in 1944 and renamed USAHS Charles A. Stafford; Transferred to the Maritime Commission at the end of World War II for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Sold for scrapping, 22 January 1957 to the Bethlehem Steel Co.

Specifications: Displacement 11,298 t.; Length 443' 3"; Beam 60'; Draft 24' 6"; Speed 17.5 kts; Complement 346; Armament two 1-pounders and two machine guns; Propulsion unknown.


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Siboney 66k The caption for this photo reads "U.S. Marines 'Devil Dogs' arriving at Naval Base - Hampton Roads, VA - USA Aug. 8, 1918 Returning from overseas service aboard U.S.S Troop
Ship Siboney."
Submitted by Anna Bullard for her father Oliver Howard Holmes
Siboney 88k Colhoun (DD-85) escorting a convoy of troopships, in mid-1918. The two-stack transport beyond her bow is USS
Siboney (ID 2999).
Photographed by R. Bowman.
Courtesy of Jack L. Howland, 1983.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 95200
Naval Historical Center

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