SS Winona
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The SS Winona was an American steam merchant vessel. She was built at the end of the First World War, surviving to see action during the Second World War. She had an eventful wartime career, sailing as part of a number of convoys and surviving being torpedoed by a U-boat on one occasion.
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Name | SS Winona |
Operator | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, Tacoma, Washington |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
Yard number | 6 |
Launched | 24 November 1918 |
Completed | February 1919 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1974 in the Soviet Union |
General characteristics | |
Type | Design 1037 ship |
Tonnage | 6,197 tons |
Length | 411.5 ft |
Beam | 55 ft |
Draft | 27 ft |
Speed | 10.5 kts |
Crew | 56 |
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