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USAT Egbert
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USAHS Missouri (1898)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Spanish Campaign Medal

Hospital Ship / Transport:

Built in 1887-88 as the steel screw steamer SS Missouri by William Gray & Co., West Hartlepool, England for the Atlantic Transport Co. Ltd.

Launched, 4 December 1888

Delivered in 1889 to the Atlantic Transport Co. for the London, Swansea and Baltimore trans-Atlantic run

Loaned, 1 July 1898, to the U.S. government for up to 12 months for use as a hospital ship during the Spanish-American war

Commissioned, USAHS Missouri in 1898

Sold in 1899, to the U.S. government for $200,000.00

After the Spanish-American War Missouri was reconfigured for long-term service in the Pacific, but proved unsuitable for the climate

Reconfigured as a U.S. Army transport, date unknown, renamed USAT Egbert

Sold, date unknown, for $50,000 to B. H. A. Michaelson of St. Thomas,

Managed by the Dollar Steamship Co., renamed SS Stanley Dollar, and employed as a freighter on San Francisco to China run

Renamed SS Missouri in 1904, reverted to SS Stanley Dollar in 1905

Final Disposition, stranded 6 September 1905, on an uncharted rock off Katsuura, Japan, and became a total loss

Specifications:
Displacement 2,845 tons
Length 330'
Beam 40'
Draft 20'2"
Speed 11 kts.

Complement

Hospital Ship 4 Doctors, 10 Nurses, 24 Enlisted

Transport unknown

Hospital Ship

Patient Capacity 600

Passenger/Transport

Passengers unknown

Cargo Capacity 4,100 tons

Fuel Capacities unknown

Cruise Radius unknown

Propulsion

two double-ended boilers, 160psi

one triple expansion steam engine

single propeller

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service
	67k	SS Missouri moored pierside, probably at Boston, date unknown.	Atlantic Transport Co.
/ 30081505	1505k	Painting by Thomas M. M. Hemy, 1889 "And Every Soul Was Saved" Wikipedia	Tommy Trampp
USAHS Missouri
	157k	USAHS Missouri at anchor in New York harbor near the Statue of Liberty, circa Summer of 1898. This ship was lent to the U.S. by the Atlantic Transport Line in 1898. After the war she served as an Army Hospital Ship in the Philippines, her name eventually becoming USAT Egbert. She became the SS Stanley Dollar in 1903. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 45909 by E.H. Hart.
USAT Egbert
	59k	USAT Egbert docked at Schwabacher's Wharf, Seattle, WA., preparing to transport troops to China, 7 August 1900.	Tommy Trampp
	133k	USAT Egbert underway, circa 1903, location unknown US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 75582	Tommy Trampp
/ 30081506	98k	USAT Egbert moored pierside at Seattle WA., circa 1900-1903. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number SEA2989], Photo by Barton Bros.	University of Washington Digital Collection
/ 30081507	100k	USAT Egbert moored pierside at Seattle WA., circa 1900-1903. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number SEA2983], Photo by Barton Bros.	University of Washington Digital Collection