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USAT Pak Ling


Transport:
  • Built in 1895 by Workman & Co.Ld., Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Launched 24 July 1895
  • Delivered, date unknown, to the Blue Funnel Line
  • Acquired by the United States War Department, circa 1897
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Transportation Corps
  • Commission USAT Pak Ling, date unknown
  • Pak Ling transported US Army troops to China during the Boxer Rebellion
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Reacquired in 1902 by Blue Funnel Line with the China Mutual Steam Navigation fleet
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1923
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,614 gross tons, 2,952 net tons
    Length 410'
    Beam 48.1'
    Draft 27.4
    Speed 13.5 kts
    Complement unknown dt>Propulsion
    two boilers
    one 3 cyl triple expansion steam engine, 600hp
    single screw

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    73k USAT Pak Ling transporting U.S. troops and horses out of Seattle en route for China, 5 August 1900
    University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number TEP0122], Photo by Theodore E. Peiser.
    University of Washington Digital Collection

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