SS President Cleveland (1947)

History
United States
Name: SS President Cleveland
Namesake: Grover Cleveland
Operator: American President Lines
Route: Trans-Pacific
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co, Alameda, California
Yard number: 9509
Laid down: 28 August 1944
Launched: 23 June 1946
Completed: 1947
Identification: Official number: 254296
Fate: scrapped 1974
General characteristics [1]
Tonnage:
Displacement: 23,504 long tons (23,881 t)
Length:
  • 609 ft 6 in (185.78 m) o/a
  • 573 ft (175 m) p/p
Beam: 75 ft 6 in (23.01 m)
Draft: 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m)
Installed power: 20,000 hp (14,914 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Capacity:
  • 579 passengers (379 first class, 200 economy class)
  • 193,984 cubic feet (5,493 m3) cargo
Notes: sister ship: SS President Wilson

SS President Cleveland was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the Maritime Commission during World War II, as one of the Admiral-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral D. W. Taylor (AP-128).[1] The ship was laid down on 28 August 1944 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Alameda, California, but was cancelled on 16 December 1944.[2]

Redesigned for passenger service long before, she was launched on 23 June 1946 as President Cleveland,[3] completed in 1947, and bareboat chartered to American President Lines.[4]

The ship was used in the film Susan Slade, filmed in 1961, featuring Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Dorothy Maguire and Lloyd Nolan.

The ship was featured in a 1962 Britannica Films production called "The Seaport", filmed in San Francisco.[5]

She was sold to Oceanic Cruise Development, Inc. (C.Y. Tung Group) on 9 February 1973, and renamed Oriental President. The ship was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1974.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "APL: History - 1944-52 SS President Cleveland". apl.com. 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Admiral D. W. Taylor". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bethlehem Launches the President Wilson" (PDF). Pacific Marine Review. San Francisco, California: Pacific American Steamship Association: 33–37. January 1947. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  4. ↑ "Proposed Work on the S.S. President Cleveland and S.S. President Wilson" (PDF). General Accounting Office. October 20, 1952. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  5. ↑ The Seaport - 1962 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42. 21 August 2015 – via YouTube.


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