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USAT Edward Chambers

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Freighter:
  • Laid down in 1908 as the Package Boat SS North Sea for Mutual Transit Co. at Great Lakes Engine Works, Escore, MI.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Completed and delivered in May 1909 to Mutual Transit Co.
  • Acquired in 1916 by the Great Lakes Transit Corp.
  • Renamed SS Edward Chambers in 1927
  • Purchased by the War Shipping Administration, 22 July 1942, at Chicago, IL.
  • Assigned to the War Department, 26 March 1943, as a bare bottom charter, at Mobile, AL.
  • Commissioned USAT Edward Chambers, date unknown
  • Decommissioned and retired from US Army service, date unknown
  • Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 23 December 1946, for lay up in the Maritime Commission National Defense Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Sold, 5 April 1948, to Great Lakes Transit Corp.
  • Withdrawn from the Reserve Fleet and delivered, 19 April 1948, to Great Lakes Transit Corp.
  • Sold in September 1949, to Polar Trading & Packing Co.
  • Final Disposition, sold to Kaiser Co., Fontana, CA, and scrapped at Seattle, WA, in 1951
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,202 gross tons
    Length 359'
    Beam 46'
    Draft 30'
    Speed 10 kts
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one triple expansion steam engine
    single shaft, 1,800shp
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    Edward Chambers
    302202902    		 102k SS Edward Chambers moored, circa 1927-1943, location unknown.
    Bowling Green Bay State University - Historical Collections of the Great Lakes    		 John Spivey
    Edward Chambers
    302202901    		 45k SS Edward Chambers transiting locks in the Great lakes area, circa 1930, location unknown.
    Photo from www.flickr.com by Don…The UpNorth Memories Guy    		 John Spivey
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