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SS Kroonland was a passenger steamship
USAT Kroonland
USS Kroonland (ID-1541)
Built: by William Cramp and Sons. Philadelphia
Completed: 1902
Length: 560 feet 170.7 meters
Beam: 60-feet 18.3 meters
Capacity: a 12,241 gross tons
Her hull was steel, and nearly all the rivets were set with pneumatic rivet guns.
Speed: 17 knots
Engine: twin triple-expansion steam engines
She was operated commercially for fifteen years, mainly trading between New York and Antwerpen, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

On June 28, 1902, SS Kroonland sailed from New York to Antwerpen on her maiden voyage.

By early May, 1915, SS Finland and sister ship, SS Kroonland, were chartered to the International Mercantile Marine IMM subsidiary, Panama Pacific Line, for New York to San Francisco service via the Panama Canal.

In 1916, SS Kroonland began service between the United States and Great Britain.
On May 20, 1917, some weeks after the United States. had entered the conflict, she was enroute to Liverpool, when she was damaged by a German submarine's torpedo.
Following repairs, she returned to service.
In February 1918, she was formally taken over by the United States Army and made one round-trip voyage to France between then and early April.
On July 10, 1918, she encountered an enemy U-Boat, but emerged unhurt and may have damaged the submarine with gunfire.
After the Armistice, she began bringing veterans home from the former war zone, work that continued until September 1919.

At the beginning of October 1919, SS Kroonland was decommissioned, and returned to her owner.
In 1920, she resumed commercial operations, initially between the United States and Europe.
After 1923, she sailed between the East and West Coasts by way of the Panama Canal.
In 1927, SS Kroonland was scrapped.