SS Sea Scamp

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Name Sea Scamp Speed 18 knots Length 142 m Displacement 7.573 million kg		Beam 70 ft (21 m) Launched 24 July 1943 Weight 8,482 tons Builder Ingalls Shipbuilding

USAT Sea Scamp was a Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport that saw service in World War II].

She was launched 26 November 1943 by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract with owner Lykes Brothers Steamship Company.

Voyages

Sailed from Oakland, CA 31 March 1944 for Finschafen, New Guinea arriving 30 April 1944

Sailed from San Francisco 17 November 1944 for Hollandia, New Guinea arriving 5 December 1944

Sailed from New Guinea 25 December 1944 for San Francisco, CA arriving 17 January 1945

Sailed from ? on ? for New York City, New York arriving 5 September 1945

Sailed from New York City, New York January 4, 1946 arriving 17 January 1946 in Le Havre

Sailed from Le Havre, France on 28 January 1946 for New York City, New York arriving 9 February 1946

Sailed from England (?) on ? February 1946 for New York City, New York arriving 4 March 1946

The ship was purchased by Matson Line in 1947 and renamed Hawaiian Packer. The historic Kamchatka earthquake 1952 November 4 16:58:26.0 UTC Magnitude 9.0 generated a tsunami wave in Honolulu harbor which sent a cement barge from its moorings to collide against the freighter. It was sold to U.S. Maritime Commission in 1964 and renamed Pecos in 1966. It was scrapped in 1971.

References

SS Sea Scamp Wikipedia

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