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USAT Marne

Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, circa 1919, under USSB contract (hull 677) as a Hog Island type "B" cargo vessel by American International Shipbuilding Co., Hog Island, PA. for the United States Shipping Boardas SS Sitkum
  • Launched, 16 April 1920
  • Delivered to the U.S. Shipping Board, 24 December 1920
  • Transferred to the War Department, 30 December 1920, assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service
  • Renamed USAT Marne in honor of the U.S. Army’s participation in the Marne campaign in World War I
  • Laid up in December 1921 at Norfolk, VA
  • Directed by Executive Order dated 1 July 1922 to be turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board
  • Turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board, 18 January 1923
  • Sold to the American Merchant Line in early 1924, renamed SS American Trader
  • Sold to the Société Maritime Anversoise, a Belgian shipping firm, reflagged Belgian, renamed SS Ville de Hasselt
  • Final Disposition, sunk, 31 August 1940, by U-46 near St. Kilda off the west coast of Scotland
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,590
    Length 390'
    Beam 54'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 11.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 18
    Enlisted 253
    Largest Boom Capacity 5t.
    Cargo Capacity 4,960 DWT
    non-refrigerated, 271, 330 Cu ft
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity NSFO 7,285 bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric-Curtis steam turbine
    three Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers, 215psi 475°
    three turbo-drive 60Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 2,500shp
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    Merchant Service American Merchant Line
    Marne 77k Ex-USAT Marne underway as the American Merchant Line's freighter SS American Trader, date and location unknown.
    Photo from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4, courtesy Steamship Historical Society of America    		 US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4
    Marne
    302207002    		 40k American Merchant Line's freighter SS American Trader underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy Belgian ships archive VZW, Uboat.net    		 John Spivey
    The history for USAT Marne is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4
    US Army Transportation Service Ship's Masters
    01CAPT. Capt. Chambers, John, A.T.S.30 December 1920 - 20 December 1921
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