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USAQMC McPherson

Transport:
  • Laid down in 1880 as the Iron Screw Steamer British Queen at Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast
  • Launched, 4 November 1880
  • Completed, 15 January 1881
  • Delivered to British Ship Owners Co., Liverpool
  • Sold in 1889 to Nederland Amerika Steam Mif. Rotterdam, re-named Obdam, re-flagged Netherlands
  • Acquired by the U.S. Army Quartermasters Corp, circa 1898
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service as U.S. Army Transport USAQMC McPherson 1898
  • Ran aground February 1901 on the reef about 8 miles west of Matanzas, Cuba. All crew and passengers rescued
  • Refloated circa July 1901
  • Decommissioned and retired from U.S. Army service, date unknown
  • Sold in 1905 to Luckenbach Transportation and Wrecking Co., New York, re-named Brooklyn
  • Acquired in 1908 by the estate of Lewis Luckenbach, New York, re-named S.V. Luckenbach
  • Acquired in 1915 by Onega S.S. Corporation - Barber & Co., New York, re-named Onega
  • Final Disposition, torpedoed, 30 August 1918, by UB-125 in 49.27N-005.20W off Newquay, on passage Bordeaux to Swansea
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3690 gross tons
    Length 410.4'
    Beam 39.6'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 28.9'
    Speed 15 kts
    Complement unknown
    Passengers unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    James Jack & Co. C4cyl (28, 60 x 54in) steam engine
    re-engined in 1896, T3cyl
    single screw
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    USAQMC McPherson
    McPherson
    301310301    		 161k USAQMC McPherson at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 46482 photo, by E. Muller JR., Courtesy of the Caraway Co., Rutherford, N.J.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    McPherson
    301310303    		 75k USAQMC McPherson at anchor in New York Harbor, date unknown.
    New York Historical Society photo, George P. Hall & Son.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    McPherson
    301310302    		 197k USAQMC McPherson aground on the reef 8 miles west of Matanzas, Cuba, circa February-July 1901.
    Mystic Seaport Museum    		 John Spivey
    Merchant Service
    McPherson
    301310304    		 25k Ex-USAQMC McPherson underway in merchant service as the Onega S.S. Corporation steamer SS Onega circa 1915-1918
    Uboat.net    		 John Spivey
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