SS President Coolidge

15°31′27.12″S 167°14′6.78″E / 15.5242000°S 167.2352167°E / -15.5242000; 167.2352167

SS President Coolidge
History
United States
Name	President Coolidge
Namesake	Calvin Coolidge
Owner	Dollar Steamship Lines (1931–1937) American President Lines (1937–1942)
Operator	Dollar Steamship Lines (1931–1937) American President Lines (1937–1942)
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	official number 231219[1] signal code MJPF (until 1933)[1] Call sign KDMX (from 1934)[2]
Fate	Sunk by mines, 26 October 1942[3]
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner, then troopship
Tonnage	21,936 GRT[1] 13,029 NRT[1]
Length	615.0 ft (187.5 m)[1] p/p 653 ft (199 m) o/a[7]
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	20.5 knots (38 km/h)[3] or 21 knots (39 km/h)[7]
Range	14,400 mi (23,200 km)[6]
Capacity	1,260 all classes (initial service) 350 first class 150 special/intermediate class 988 passengers (modified)[8] First class: 305 Tourist class: 133 Third class: 402
Troops	3,586[6] 5,000 (number aboard at sinking)[6]
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.