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USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Freighter:
  • Laid in 1919, as the cargo ship SS Lake Frohna by American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain OH. for the United States Shipping Board (USSB)
  • Launched 1in 1919
  • Delivered in July 1919 to the USSB
  • Sold in 1924 to the Ace Steamship Co., renamed SS Ace
  • Sold in 1930 to the Terminals and Transportation Corp., name retained
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, 1 August 1942, from the Ace Steamship Co.
  • Allocated, date unknown, the the War Department, US Army Transportation Corp. and placed in service as USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski
  • Final Disposition, On 26 September 1946 while en route from Seattle to Whittier, Alaska, with a cargo of army supplies she ran into the rocks of Pitt Island in the Grenville Channel, 55 miles south of Prince Rupert. The ship sank within twenty minutes, while her crew of 48 were rescued by the tug Sally N and the passenger steamer SS Catala
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,600 t. gross
    Length 251'
    Beam 44'
    Draft 26'
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one reciprocating steam engine
    single shaft
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    Merchant Service
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 57k SS Lake Frohna, moored pierside date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy Ocean Ecology    		 Tommy Trampp
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 62k SS Ace underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy Bowling Green State University Historical Collection of the Great Lakes    		 Tommy Trampp
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 41k SS Ace moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    Photos courtesy Ocean Ecology    		 Tommy Trampp
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 76k
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 42k
    USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski
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    Namesake
    M. G. Zalinski - Brigadier General Moses Gray Zalinski. U.S. Army (23 January 1863 - 28 August 1937) Moses Gray Zalinski, born in New York City; (entered service as Moses A. Gray) Oct. 21, 1885-March 3, 1869 pvt., cpl., sgt., Batteries G and H, 1st U. S. Artillery Rgt. Feb. 11, 1889 2ndlt., 2nd U. S. Artillery Rgt. Feb. 12, 1895 1stlt., 4th U. S. Artillery Rgt. March 6, 1895 transferred to 2nd U. S. Artillery Rgt. March 9, 1898 capt., assistant quartermaster, U. S. Army.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 15k USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    Photograph by: Handout     		 
    Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 14k The ship's bell for USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski was recovered by two Canadian divers.
    The Canadian Press · Posted: July 26, 2013 12:40 PM PT, Photo from Fisheries and Oceans Canada website    		 Tommy Trampp
    USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski
    History from Wikipedia
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    The Wreck of the Zalinski
    Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski Pollutant Removal Project
    The Tale of Dirty, Old, Leaky Zalinski, Hakai Magazine
    Brigadier General M/G. Zalinski Polluant Removal Project
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