Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.
NavSource Online:
Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive
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.
Click On Image
For Full Size Image |
Size |
Image Description |
Source |
 |
64k |
c. 1917 Princess Matoika somewhere in the Atlantic |
. |
 |
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 |
 |
131k |
20 December 1918 St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France Princess Matoika entering locks in St. St. Nazaire, France |
National Archives |
 |
142k |
Undated Post Card showing President Arthur |
. |
View the Princess Matioka (SP 2290)
DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center web site
This page created and maintained by Joseph M. Radigan
© 2005 Joseph M. Radigan © 1996 - 2005 NavSource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.
|