SS Kroonland

Narrative

SS Kroonland was a passenger steamship
She was built at Philadelphia
Capacity: a 12,241 gross tons
In 1902, she was completed
She was operated commercially for fifteen years, mainly trading between New York and Antwerpen, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

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

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

Narrative

in 1916, SS Kroonland began service between the United States and Great Britain.
On May 20, 1917, some weeks after the U.S. 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 U.S. 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.

References

  1. Grobstein, Seliande
  2. Litovsky, Selig