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USAT General Frank M. Coxe

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Transport:

Laid, 16 July 1921, the steamer General Frank M. Coxe by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W. Va., for the US War Department

Launched, 3 March 1922

Delivered, 22 November 1922, to the US War Department

USAT General Frank M. Coxe was assigned to provide transportation service to the military bases in the San Francisco Bay Area, 29 June 1923

Decommissioned as surplus in 1946

Purchased by Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line in 1946-1955, renamed SS General Frank M. Coxe

Converted to a showboat resturant circa 1958, renamed Pattaya Princess

Converted to a floating restaurant circa 2007, renamed The Sherman

Final Disposition, towed to ex-Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA. and broken up for scrap. The work was completed, 19 January 2020

Specifications:
Displacement 175 dwt
Length 144'
Beam 28'
Draft 9'
Speed 16 mph

Complement

Officers unknown

Enlisted, unknown

Cargo Capacity unknown

Cruise Radius unknown

Propulsion

one steam engine

two Ward WT boilers

single shaft, 1,050ihp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Source
USAT General Frank M. Coxe
301303818	211k	*Namesake* Frank Morrell Coxe was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04 March 1842. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in November 1863, Coxe served in various Colored Infantry units, finishing his Civil War service as a brevet Colonel. Appointed a Captain in the regular 40th Infantry in November 1866, he transferred to the 25th Infantry in 1869. Coxe spent the remainder of his career in the Paymaster Corps, mainly as paymaster of the Departments of California and the Columbia. He retired at his own request after thirty years of service with the rank of Brigadier General, 25 January 1904. He died at San Francisco, 15 September 1916, and is buried in San Francisco National Cemetery. Photo from findagrave.com.	David Wright
	154k	Post launch of USAT General Frank M. Coxe, 3 March 1922, on the Kanawha River at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W. Va. West Virginia University - West Virginia On View	Tommy Trampp
301303817	279k	USAT General Frank M. Coxe and USAT General John McE Hyde moored at Cincinnati during their delivery voyage. *Coxe* arrived at San Francisco for duty 29 June 1923. Photo from "Cincinnati Inquirer", 18 February 1923.	David Wright
	11k	USAT General Frank M. Coxe calls at Alcatraz circa 1935 Bureau of Prisons photo	Tommy Trampp
	8k	USAT General Frank M. Coxe docked at Fort McDowell, Angel Island CA, during WWII	Tommy Trampp
Commercial Service
	427k	Gray Line brochure featuring ex-USAT General Frank M. Coxe operated by Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line offering tours of San Francisco Bay, circa 1947.	Tommy Trampp
	197k	SS General Frank M. Coxe underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	82k	SS General Frank M. Coxe underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	35k	Ex-USAT General Frank M. Coxe during reconfiguration as the showboat *Pattaya Princess* with a dummy paddle wheel constructed on the port side, circa 1950s.	Tommy Trampp
301303816	190k	*Pattaya Princess* (ex-USAT General Frank M. Cox during her reconfiguration as a floating restaurant at Burlingame CA., 18 February 2002.	©George Schneider
	10k	*The Sherman* in her configuration as a floating restaurant in the Burlingame California Recreational Lagoon.	Tommy Trampp
301303811	146k	*The Sherman* in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Stockton CA., 21-22 March 2015.	©George Schneider
301303812	120k		©George Schneider
301303815	128	*The Sherman* in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Stockton CA., 21 September 2016.	©George Schneider
301303813	145k	*The Sherman* in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Vallejo CA., 8 July 2017.	©George Schneider
301303814	85k	*The Sherman* in her configuration as a floating restaurant at Vallejo CA., 14 April 2019.	©George Schneider
	33k	*The Sherman* in a dry dock at ex-Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. being broken up for scrap, circa December 2019 - January 2020.	Michael J. Alfid
	102k		Michael J. Alfid

USAT General Frank M. Coxe
History from Wikipedia
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Burlingame Historical Society
"The Untold Story of the Sherman", Recordnet.com

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