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SS American Seaman
ex
 USAT Edgemoor (1920 - 1926)

Transport
  • Laid down, date unknown, by Skinner & Eddy Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 29 March 1919
  • Delivered to the U.S. Shipping Board in 1919
  • Transferred to the War Department, 15 July 1920, at New York and assigned to the Army Transport Service
  • Further assigned to the A.T.S. Atlantic Fleet with home port at Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • USS Edgemoor generally serviced the New York—Panama—San Francisco route
  • Decommissioned and returned, 2 September 1921, to the U.S. Shipping Board
  • Returned to the War Department, 10 April 1922 and reassigned to the A.T.S. Atlantic Fleet with homeport at Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Edgemoor underwent an extensive, but rapid, overhaul in April 1925 at the Hanson Drydock and Shipyard in Oakland, CA.
  • Returned, 15 July 1926, to the U.S. Shipping Board and laid up at Seattle
  • Sold in the late 1920s to the Lykes Brothers-Ripley Steamship Co.
  • Acquired by the US Merchant Marine Academy, 22 May 1939, renamed SS American Seaman, and operated by the US Coast Guard as a training ship through WWII
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1952 at Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,999 t.(fl)
    Length 410'5"
    Beam 54'
    Draft 37'9"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passenger capacity unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    USAT Edgemoor
    Edgemoor
    301306802    		 137k b>USAT Edgemoor launching, 29 March 1919, at kinner & Eddy Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, WA. David Wright
    USCG Traning Ship SS American Seaman
    Edgemoor 123k Ex-USAT Edgemoor as the US Coast Guard operated training ship SS American Seaman underway, date and location unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo    		 US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4.
    USAT Edgemoor history is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol 4
    Masters
    01CAPT. Christensen, B., A.T.S.15 July 1920 - 19 July 1921
    02CAPT. Bartlett, Robert A., A.T.S.19 July 1921 - 2 September 1921
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