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USAT Coamo

Lost to enemy action, 2 December 1942
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Transport:
  • Built in 1925 as the Passenger ship SS Coamo at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. for the New York & Porto Rico Line
  • Launched, 22 July 1925
  • Delivered, 22 December 1925 to the New York & Porto Rico Line
  • Chartered by the War Shipping Administration, 11 February 1942, at New York from the Agwilines Inc.
  • Altered for troopship use at Bethlehem Steel Co., New York from mid-February to early March 1942
  • Time chartered to the War Department operated under at General Agency Agreement by the Agwilines Inc.
  • Torpedoed and sunk, 2 December 1942, by U-604
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,057 gross tons
    Length 430'8"
    Beam 55'5"
    Draft 27'3"
    Speed 11 kts
    Complement
    Officers 11 officers
    Crew 122
    Armed Guard 37
    Troopship Passenger Capacity 502
    Cargo Capacity 400,777 cu ft
    Cruise Radius 20,000 nm
    Propulsion
    Diesel
    Single shaft
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    Merchant Service
    Coamo 68k SS Coamo moored pierside, date and location unknown.
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    USAT Coamo
    Coamo 155k USAT Coamo moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    Photo from "Troopships of World War II"    		  
    USAT Coamo history is from "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles, Published by The Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947
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