Category:USAT John L. Clem (ship, 1918)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Passenger cargo ship, later troop transport, hospital ship
- Built by: William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia
- Yard No: 442
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1917.09.13
- Completed: 1918.01
- Length over all: 360.2 ft
- Beam: 51.6 ft
- GT: 4869
- DWT:
- www.navsource.org
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov
History
[edit]- 1918 Named Santa Ana; Flag: United States
- Official number: 215880
- Owner: Grace Line
- 1918.02 Renamed USS Santa Ana (ID 2869); Flag: United States
- 1919 Renamed Santa Ana; Flag: United States
- Code letters: LJMQ
- Port: New York City
- Owner: Grace Line
- 1928 Renamed Guatemala; Flag: United States
- Code letters: LJMQ
- Port: New York City, from 1930 San Francisco
- Owner: Panama Mail Steamship Co.
- 1931 Renamed Santa Cecilia; Flag: United States
- Call sign: LJMQ, from 1934 WADT
- Port: San Francisco
- Owner: Panama Mail Steamship Co.
- 1936 Renamed Irwin; Flag: United States
- Call sign: WADT
- Port: Baltimore
- Owner: Merchants and Miners Transportation Co.
- 1941 Renamed USAT John L. Clem; Flag: United States
- Assigned USN ID AP-36 but was never commissioned, converted to army troopship
- 1944 Renamed USAHS John L. Clem; Flag: United States
- Converted to hopsital ship
- 1945 Renamed USAT John L. Clem; Flag: United States
- Reconverted to transport after Japanese surrender
- 1946 Renamed Irwin; Flag: United States
- Laid up at Maritime Commission's reserve fleet at Brunswick, Georgia
- 1948.01 Sold for scrapping