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Berkshire

Transport:
  • Laid down in 1907 as the steamer Princeton at New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J., Engine built by W.&A. Fletcher Co. Hoboken, N.J.
  • Launched, September 1907
  • Laid up at Turkey Point on the Hudson River
  • Completed in 1913 and delivered as Berkshire to the People's Line for service between New York City and Albany, N.Y.
  • Acquired by the Hudson Navigation Co. prior to W.W.I
  • Laid up in 1937
  • Acquired by the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1941
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army
  • Towed to Hoboken, N.J. for fitting out as a barracks ship, 31 January 1941
  • 25 June 1941 Berkshire was towed to Bermuda to servie as a barracks ship.
  • Final Disposition, broken up at Philadelphia, PA., date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,918 lt.,4300 fl.
    Length 440'
    Beam 90'
    Draft 12.9'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passengers 2,000
    Propulsion
    single vertical beam reciprocating steam engine, cylinder diameter 84", stroke 8 ft.
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    Berkshire
    301309301    		 294k Advertising poster depicting SS Berkshire using her searchlight while underway on the Hudson River prior to World War I. as She was very similar to the the U.S. Navy receiving ship C.W. Morse (ID # 1966) in 1917-1919.
    Same as U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 99705. Black and white copy of an advertising poster for the nightboat "Berkshire," Donald C. Ringwald Collection, Hudson River Maritime Museum.    		 Hudson River Maritime Museum
    Berkshire
    301309305    		 126k Steamer Berkshire underway on the Hudson River, circa 1920's Hudson River Maritime Museum
    Berkshire
    301309302    		 154k USCGC Comanche towing Berkshire on her last trip down the Hudson River, 31 January 1941, via Hoboken enroute to Bermuda to serve as a U.S. Army barracks ship at St. George, Bermuda. Hudson River Maritime Museum
    Berkshire
    301309303    		 170k Berkshire in St. George's Harbor, Bermuda, June, 1942.
    Tracy I. Brooks Collection, Hudson River Maritime Museum    		 Hudson River Maritime Museum
    Berkshire
    301309304    		 111k Berkshire being scrapped at Philadelphia, 11 February 1946.
    Tracy I. Brooks Collection, Hudson River Maritime Museum    		 Hudson River Maritime Museum
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