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