USS Zeelandia
Dutch-owned ocean liner that was a US Navy troopship in 1918 and 1919 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Zeelandia was an ocean liner that was built in Scotland in 1910 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1936. She was the largest ship in the Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd (KHL) fleet from 1910 until the liners Gelria and Tubantia were completed in 1913 and 1914. She was USS Zeelandia from April 1918 until October 1919, when she was a United States Navy troopship.
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Netherlands | |
Name | Zeelandia |
Namesake | Zeeland |
Owner | Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd |
Operator | US Navy (1918–19) |
Port of registry | Amsterdam |
Route | Amsterdam – Buenos Aires |
Builder | A Stephen & Sons, Glasgow |
Yard number | 436 |
Launched | 26 April 1910 |
Completed | June 1910 |
Acquired | March 1918 |
Commissioned | 3 April 1918 |
Decommissioned | 16 October 1919 |
Out of service | laid up from February 1935 |
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Fate | Scrapped in 1936 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 7,995 GRT, 4,960 NRT, 7,420 DWT |
Displacement | 11,500 tons |
Length | 440.0 ft (134.1 m) |
Beam | 55.7 ft (17.0 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m) |
Depth | 34.0 ft (10.4 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 953 NHP, 5,800 ihp |
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Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Capacity | |
Complement | in US Navy: 322 |
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