&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Art_-_SS_Mongolia_by_Fred_Pansing_Cropped_(cropped).jpg) SS Mongolia by Fred Pansing
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Ordered | 18 December 1900 |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden |
| Yard number | 5 |
| Laid down | 7 June 1902 |
| Launched | 25 July 1903 |
| Completed | January 1904 |
| Commissioned | May 1918 |
| Decommissioned | September 1919 |
| Maiden voyage | 7 May 1904 |
| In service | 1903–1946 |
| Renamed |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1946 (Shanghai, China) |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 13,369 gross register tons[1] |
| Displacement | 26,500 tons[2] |
| Length | 615 ft 8 in (187.66 m)[1] |
| Beam | 65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)[3] |
| Draft | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)[3] |
| Propulsion | Scotch boilers, steam quadruple expansion engines (10,000 shaft HP at 80 RPM); twin screws[2] |
| Speed | 16 knots[4] |
| Capacity | |
| Crew | 130[5] |
| Armament | (March 1917 - September 1919) 3 × 6"/40 caliber guns[2] with Navy gun crews |
SS Mongolia was a 13,369-ton passenger-and-cargo liner originally built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1904. She later sailed as USS Mongolia (ID-1615) for the U.S. Navy, as SS President Fillmore for the Dollar Line and as SS Panamanian for Cia Transatlantica Centroamericano.
- ^ a b Marine Engineering (1904). "Steamship Mongolia". Marine Engineering. 9 (April 1904). New York: Marine Engineering Incorporated: 151–159.
- ^ a b c d Silverstone, Paul (2013). The New Navy, 1883-1922. New York: Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 9781135865429.
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