15°31′27.12″S 167°14′6.78″E / 15.5242000°S 167.2352167°E
![]() SS President Coolidge
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Name | President Coolidge |
Namesake | Calvin Coolidge |
Owner |
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Operator |
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Port of registry | San Francisco[1] |
Route | San Francisco – Kobe – Shanghai – Manila[5] |
Ordered | 26 October 1929[4] |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding[1] |
Cost | US$8,017,690[citation needed] |
Yard number | 340[3] |
Laid down | 22 April 1930 |
Launched | 21 February 1931 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Calvin C. Coolidge |
Completed | 1 October 1931 (delivered) |
Homeport | San Francisco |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by mines, 26 October 1942[3] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner, then troopship |
Tonnage | |
Length | |
Beam | 81.0 ft (24.7 m)[1] |
Depth | 52.0 ft (15.8 m)[1] |
Decks | 9 |
Installed power | 12 Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers |
Propulsion | turbo-electric transmission |
Speed | |
Range | 14,400 mi (23,200 km)[6] |
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Troops | |
Crew | 300 (initial service, passenger ship) |
Notes | sister ship: SS President Hoover |
SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in 1931. She was operated by Dollar Steamship Lines until 1938, and then by American President Lines until 1941. She served as a troopship from December 1941 until October 1942, when she was sunk by mines in Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base, part of current-day Vanuatu. President Coolidge had a sister ship, SS President Hoover, completed in 1930 and lost when she ran aground in a typhoon in 1937.
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