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USAT President Grant

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of Awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Transport

Laid down, date unknown, as SS Centennial State, a USSB type-1095 Passenger-Cargo Liner, at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.

Launched, date unknown

Delivered to the United States Shipping Board (USSB), 23 April 1921

Operated for USSB by United States Lines in Atlantic service between New York and Europe

Sold in 1923 to the Robert Dollar Co., renamed SS President Adams

Began Round-the-World cruises from New York, 7 February 1924

Taken over by the United States Maritime Commission in 1938

Allocated by the War Shipping Administration in 1940

Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAT President Grant

Final Disposition, wrecked, 26 April 1944 SE of New Guinea

Specifications:
Displacement 10,500 t.(lt) 12,000 t.(fl)
Length 522'
Beam 62'
Draft 31'
Speed 14 kts

Complement 115

Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown

Cargo Capacity 465,940 cu ft

Cruise Radius unknown

Propulsion two 4-cylinder triple expansion inverted reciprocating engines, 7,000 shp

twin propellers

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USAT President Grant
	125k	*Namesake* Ulysses S. Grant, victorious commander of the Union Army during the Civil War, and 18th President of the United States, was born 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1843; served under Taylor and Scott in the Mexican War; resigned his commission 1854. On the outbreak of Civil War he was commissioned Colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry, later Major General of Volunteers. His wise use of power afloat in combined operations, commencing with the occupation of Paducah, Ky., won impressive victories at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. His determination to win prompted Lincoln to appoint him supreme commander of the Union forces. His relentless campaign against Richmond, in which he continued to take full advantage of the North's control of the sea, forced Lee to surrender at Appomattox. In 1867 Grant received an interim appointment as Secretary of War. In 1868 he was elected to his first of two terms as President. He devoted his later years to the writing of his "memoirs," which were published in 1885, the year of his death. Digital ID: cph 3a53291 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division	Bill Gonyo
	38k	Survivors from *HMAS Canberra* (D-33) being transferred from the destroyer USS Patterson (DD-392)** to USAT President Grant. *Canberra* was scuttled off Guadalcanal, 9 August 1942, after sustaining heavy damage the night before. Australian War Memorial, Photo No. P11247.001	Mike Green
Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 302707	57k	USAT President Grant coming alongside a pier at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 28 August 1942. *President Grant* is carrying *HMAS Canberra* (D-33)** survivors. Australian War Memorial, Photo No.'s 302707 and 305628	Mike Green
Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 305628	85k		Mike Green
	55k	*USAT President Grant)* under way at an unidentified location. The ship is armed with the typical transport armament, one 5”/38 DP stern mounted gun and four 3”/50 DP single tub mounted guns forward and aft. Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 302708	Mike Green

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