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USAT General Frank M. Coxe


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal


Transport:
  • Laid, 16 July 1921, the steamer General Frank M. Coxe by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W. Va., for the US War Department
  • Launched, 3 March 1922
  • Delivered, 22 November 1922, to the US War Department
  • USAT General Frank M. Coxe was assigned to provide transportation service to the military bases in the San Francisco Bay Area, 29 June 1923
  • Decommissioned as surplus in 1946
  • Purchased by Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line in 1946-1955, renamed SS General Frank M. Coxe
  • Converted to a showboat resturant circa 1958, renamed Pattaya Princess
  • Converted to a floating restaurant circa 2007, renamed The Sherman
  • Final Disposition, towed to ex-Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA. and broken up for scrap. The work was completed, 19 January 2020
    Specifications:
    Displacement 175 dwt
    Length 144'
    Beam 28'
    Draft 9'
    Speed 16 mph
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one steam engine
    two Ward WT boilers
    single shaft, 1,050ihp

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    Namesake
    Frank Morrell Coxe was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04 March 1842. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in November 1863, Coxe served in various Colored Infantry units, finishing his Civil War service as a brevet Colonel. Appointed a Captain in the regular 40th Infantry in November 1866, he transferred to the 25th Infantry in 1869. Coxe spent the remainder of his career in the Paymaster Corps, mainly as paymaster of the Departments of California and the Columbia. He retired at his own request after thirty years of service with the rank of Brigadier General, 25 January 1904. He died at San Francisco, 15 September 1916, and is buried in San Francisco National Cemetery.
    Photo from findagrave.com.
    David Wright
    General Frank M. Coxe 154k Post launch of USAT General Frank M. Coxe, 3 March 1922, on the Kanawha River at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W. Va.
    West Virginia University - West Virginia On View
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    279k USAT General Frank M. Coxe and USAT General John McE Hyde moored at Cincinnati during their delivery voyage. Coxe arrived at San Francisco for duty 29 June 1923.
    Photo from "Cincinnati Inquirer", 18 February 1923.
    David Wright
    General Frank M. Coxe 11k USAT General Frank M. Coxe calls at Alcatraz circa 1935
    Bureau of Prisons photo
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    General Frank M. Coxe 8k USAT General Frank M. Coxe docked at Fort McDowell, Angel Island CA, during WWII Tommy Trampp
    Commercial Service
    General Frank M. Coxe 427k Gray Line brochure featuring ex-USAT General Frank M. Coxe operated by Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line offering tours of San Francisco Bay, circa 1947. Tommy Trampp
    General Frank M. Coxe 197k SS General Frank M. Coxe underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
    General Frank M. Coxe 82k SS General Frank M. Coxe underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
    General Frank M. Coxe 35k Ex-USAT General Frank M. Coxe during reconfiguration as the showboat Pattaya Princess with a dummy paddle wheel constructed on the port side, circa 1950s. Tommy Trampp
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    190k Pattaya Princess (ex-USAT General Frank M. Cox during her reconfiguration as a floating restaurant at Burlingame CA., 18 February 2002. ©George Schneider
    General Frank M. Coxe 10k The Sherman in her configuration as a floating restaurant in the Burlingame California Recreational Lagoon. Tommy Trampp
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    146k The Sherman in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Stockton CA., 21-22 March 2015. ©George Schneider
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    128 The Sherman in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Stockton CA., 21 September 2016. ©George Schneider
    General Frank M. Coxe
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    145k The Sherman in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Vallejo CA., 8 July 2017. ©George Schneider
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    85k The Sherman in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Vallejo CA., 14 April 2019. ©George Schneider
    General Frank M. Coxe 33k The Sherman in a dry dock at ex-Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. being broken up for scrap, circa December 2019 - January 2020. Michael J. Alfid
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    USAT General Frank M. Coxe
    History from Wikipedia
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Burlingame Historical Society
    "The Untold Story of the Sherman", Recordnet.com
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