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History - President Fillmore (First)

Fillmore

Built 1904 by New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, New Jersey. Hull No. 5, O/N 200,493

LOA=615'4" LBP=600'0" B=65'0" D=51'3" Draft=33'6"
Displacement=26,700 LT Deadweight=12,300 LT Gross tonnage=15,575
Cargo capacity=559,000 CuFt. Passengers=260 Speed=15 knots

Machinery: Twin screw, two 4-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, 11,000 total HP. Four double-ended and 4 single-ended fire tube boilers, 215 PSI WP, originally coal fired but converted to oil fired in 1919.

Originally MONGOLIA. Built for and operated by Pacific Mail Steamship Co. from 1904 to 1915. Sold to Atlantic Transport Co. 1915. After service as a troop transport in World War I was employed in North Atlantic and Intercoastal trade. From 1925 until 1929 was operated in the Pacific by Panama Pacific Line. Sold to Dollar Steamship Lines 1929 and renamed President Fillmore. Laid up in 1931 and transferred to APL in 1938. Sold to Wallem & Co. in February 1940, transferred to Panamanian flag and renamed PANAMANIAN. Sold for scrap and broken up at Shanghai in 1947.

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