President Harding

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Ship data
flag United States 48United States United States Belgium
BelgiumBelgium 
other ship names
  • Lone Star State
  • President Taft
  • Ville de Bruges
Ship type Combined ship
home port new York

Antwerp

Owner United States Lines
Societé Maritime Antwerp
Shipyard New York Shipbuilding
Launch December 23, 1920
Whereabouts stranded and burned out, abandoned
Ship dimensions and crew
length
132.7 m ( Lüa )
width 22.0 m
Draft Max. 9.0 m
measurement 14,187 GRT
Machine system
machine 2 × steam turbines
Machine
performance 		12,000 PS (8,826 kW)
Top
speed 		19.0 kn (35 km / h)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Load capacity 13,000 dw
Permitted number of passengers I. class: 320
III. Class: 324

The combined passenger and cargo ship President Harding was launched in 1920 for the United States Lines under the name Lone Star State . It was built in the New York Shipbuilding yard on the east bank of the Delaware River near Camden .

history

On March 25, 1922, the ship left the home port of New York on its maiden voyage to Plymouth . She returned to New York with stops in Cherbourg , Bremen and Southampton . After this first voyage, the ship was renamed President Taft . On April 29, 1922, the ship ran under a new name on two further voyages towards Europe. After the two voyages, the ship was renamed again, this time President Harding . One possible reason for the renaming was the presence of a Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship named President Taft . The President Harding and her sister ship the President Roosevelt were originally modeled in their construction of an earlier passenger ship class. Due to the positive development on the North Atlantic route in combined passenger and freight traffic in the mid-1920s, the ships were rebuilt several times and adapted to the corresponding requirements of the North Atlantic journey and served on the North Atlantic route until the United States entered the Second World War . They were the largest merchant ships built in the United States shortly after the First World War . The President Harding in 1940 to the Belgian passed subsidiary "Societe Maritime Antwerp" and Ville de Bruges renamed.

The ship

The ship was built as a combined passenger and cargo ship with a length of 132.7 meters and a width of 22 meters. The greatest draft was 9 meters. It had a chimney. It was powered by two steam turbines via two propellers. The engine system gave the ship a speed of 19 knots. The ship carried on-board loading gear on three double masts in front of and two behind the superstructures .

The end

The new owner, Societé Maritime Antwerpen, intended to use the ship on the main route from New York to Le Havre . With a new name, the ship left the United States on March 15, 1940 for another Atlantic crossing. On May 14, 1940, it was attacked and bombed by German fighter planes on the Scheldt . The ship caught fire and ran aground. The wreck was demolished in 1952.

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