SS Emidio
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Hammac was a steam tank ship built in 1920–1921 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Alameda for the United States Shipping Board as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine. Early in 1923 the vessel together with two other tankers was sold to General Petroleum Corporation and renamed Emidio. The tanker spent the vast majority of her career carrying oil along the West Coast of the United States as well as between West and East coast. In December 1941 she was shelled and damaged by the Japanese submarine I-17 and eventually wrecked with a loss of five crewmen.
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SS Emidio in Vancouver, June 1932. Photograph by Walter E. Frost | |
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Ordered | 30 April 1918 |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Potrero |
Yard number | 5274 |
Laid down | 30 November 1920 |
Launched | 25 May 1921 |
Completed | July 1921 |
Maiden voyage | 14 March 1922 |
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Identification | |
Fate | Wrecked, 20 December 1941 |
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Type | Design 1047 Tankship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 435.0 ft (132.6 m) |
Beam | 56.2 ft (17.1 m) |
Depth | 33.5 ft (10.2 m) |
Installed power | 422 nhp, 3,100 ihp (2,300 kW) |
Propulsion | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. 3-cylinder triple expansion |
Speed | 11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
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