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USAT Scottsburg

Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as SS Scottsburg by New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 20 September 1919
  • Delivered to the U.S. Shipping Board, 29 November 1919
  • Transferred to the War Department, 2 May 1936, at New Orleans, LA.
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service as a temporary replacement for the USAT Ludington as it underwent a major overhaul
  • Assigned to the A.T.S. Atlantic Fleet with homeport at Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • USAT Scottsburg generally serviced the New York-Canal Zone-San Francisco-Hawaii route
  • Decommissioned and turned over to the U.S. Maritime Commission, 12 February 1937, at Galveston, TX.
  • Sold, 12 February 1937, to Lykes Brothers-Ripley Steamship Company at San Francisco
  • Final Disposition, torpedoed and sunk by U-502, 14 June 1942, off Florida in the Caribbean
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,001 t.
    Length 419' 3"
    Beam 56' 5"
    Draft 27'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    one 4 cyl. quadruple expansion steam engine
    three boilers
    single propeller, 577nhp
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    Scottsburtg 99k USAT Scottsburg underway, date and location unknown
    US National Archives RG 32-Records of the United States Shipping Board    		 US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4
    Scottsburtg 29k USAT Scottsburg at anchor, date and location unknown  
    The history for USAT Scottsburg is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4
    US Army Transportation Service Ship's Masters
    011st Officer Sorenson, Trygve, A.T.S.4 May 1936 - 26 May 1936
    02CAPT. Bernard, Walter J., A.T.S.26 May 1936 - September 1936
    03CAPT. Pumphrey, Daniel, A.T.S.September 1936 - 12 February 1937
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