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USAT Liscum

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Transport
  • Laid down, date unknown as SS Kongsee at R. W. Hawthorn Shipbuilding Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
  • Launched in 1878
  • Purchased by the Quartermaster Department, 28 March 1901 from Mr. Warner Barnes at Hong Kong
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service
  • Further assigned to the Philippine Inter-Island Service with homeport at Manila, P.I.
  • Renamed USAT Liscum in honor of Col. Emerson H. Liscum, commander of the 9th Infantry, who was killed in action 13 July 1900 at Tientsen, China
  • Generally transported troops and supplies between garrisons in the Philippines, but made occasional voyages to transfer troops and supplies to garrisons in China
  • Sold, 15 May 1923, at Manila, renamed SS Nuestre Seņora de Alba
  • Renamed as SS Yung Shun in 1934
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1939
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,072 t.
    Length 248'
    Beam 31'2"
    Draft 19'9"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passenger capacity unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    Merchant Service
    Liscum
    301307102    		 60k Starboard profile drawing of SS Kongsee, circa 1878
    Tyne Built Ships    		 John Spivey
    Liscum
    301307103    		 52k Overhead view drawing of deck plan for SS Kongsee, circa 1878
    Tyne Built Ships    		 John Spivey
    USAT Liscum
    Liscum 75k USAT Liscum at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4., US National Archives RG-92 Records of the Quartermaster General     		US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4.
    USAT Liscum history is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol 4
    Army Transportation Service Ship's Masters
    01CAPT. Barclay, W.C., A.T.S.6 December 1914 - November 1920
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