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USAT Point San Pedro

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Cargo Ship :
  • Laid down in 1919, as the USSB design 1038 cargo ship SS Houston for the United State Shipping Board (USSB) at Mobile Shipbuilding, Mobile, AL.
  • Launched in 1919
  • Assigned US Navy Identification Number 4183E in the US Navy Registry
  • Delivered in February 1920 to the United States Shipping Board
  • Acquired in 1929 by McCormick Steamship Co., renamed SS Point San Pedro
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, 13 March 1942, at New York City as a time charter from McCormick Steamship Co.
  • Operated by McCormick Steamship Co. as a time charter from 13 March to 18 December 1942
  • Reacquired by the War Shipping Administration, 18 December 1942, from McCormick Steamship Co. as a bare bottom charter
  • Allocated, 18 December 1942, to the War Department Transportation Corp. as a sub bare bottom charter
  • Commissioned USAT Point San Pedro, date unknown
  • Purchased, 16 July 1944, by the War Shipping Administration at Brisbane, Australia
  • Decommissioned and retired from U.S Army service, date unknown
  • Sold, 16 April 1946, to the Chinese Supply Commission, renamed SS Hai Chien, reflagged China
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1958
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,280 gross tons
    Length 324'
    Beam 46'
    Draft 28'
    Speed 10.5 kts
    Armament unknown
    Complement unknown
    Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one triple expansion reciprocating steam engine
    single shaft, 1,600shp
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    Merchant Service McCormick Steamship Company.
    Point San Pedro
    302205001     		61k McCormick Steamship Company freighter SS Point San Pedro underway, date and location unknown. Her rig was considerably modified for service as a lumber carrier.
    Photo from Shipscribe.com     		John Spivey
    Point San Pedro
    302205003     		188k McCormick Steamship Company freighter SS Point San Pedro (ID-4283E) on the left, at the Ford Motor Company pier at Chester, PA., 2 April 1940. On the right is SS Jeff Davis (ID-4413C) a USSB design 1037 freighter. Jeff Davis was a 1929 diesel conversion that survived World War II, and was similar to her sisters acquired by the US Navy, USS Supply (AVS-2) and USS Fortune (AVS-2)
    Photo from the Dallin collection 13053, Hagley Museum Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.    		 John Chiquoine
    USAT Point San Pedro
    poiny San Pedro
    302205002     		82k USAT Point San Pedro at anchor, date and location unknown. Note the unidentified Liberrty Ship anchored in the background.
    		John Spivey
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