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USAT Ganandoc

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Freighter:
  • Laid down in 1929 as the Collier SS Ganandoc at Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Completed and delivered in 1929 to Paterson Steamships Ltd., Canada
  • Acquired, date unknown, by the Canadian Shipping Board
  • Purchased by the War Shipping Administration, 30 December 1942, at Mobile, AL., for $171,363.64
  • Assigned to Alcoa Steam Ship Co., 30 December 1942, under a General Agency Agreement at Mobile, AL.
  • Allocated to the War Department, 22 March 1944, as a bare bottom charter, at Mobile, AL.
  • Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 17 September 1945, for lay up in in reserve at Southampton, England
  • Chartered in 1946 by Peak Steamship Co., Ltd., reflagged Canada
  • Sold, 10 September 1947, to Wallen & Co., Hong Kong, reflagged Panama
  • Sold in 1961 to Sandland Shipping Ltd., renamed SS Sugarland, November 1961, reflagged British West Indies
  • Final Disposition, ran aground, 20 November 1961, on Arcas Reef off Campeche Bay, 80 miles from Port Campeche, Mexico on a voyage from Tampa to Coatzacoalcos with a cargo of phosphate rock
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,924 gross tons
    Length 253'
    Beam 43'
    Draft 20'
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity 115,465 sq ft
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one triple expansion steam engine
    single shaft, 750shp
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    Ganandoc
    302203001    		 59k SS Ganandoc underway, date and location unknown.
    Green Bay State University - Historical Collections of the Great Lakes    		 John Spivey
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