Other name(s): Navemar
Ship owner: Argentina Government; Ford Motor Co.; Navemar Doc. Anon de Nav.; U.S. Maritime Commission; U.S.S.B.
Ship builder: American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio
Engine builder: American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio
Engine re-builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., San Francisco, California
Year ship built: 1919
Year engine built: 1919
Final disposition: Scrapped in Spain, 1973.
Notes:
Launched January 18, 1919. Converted to a barge and lengthened to 313 by Ford Motor Co. in 1929, gross tons 3212 and net tons 3069 in River Rouge, Michigan. Taken to ocean via Mississippi River in 1943 and converted back to self-propelled by Waterman Steamship Company in Mobile, Alabam with 1920-built triple expansion engines (42 stroke, pistons: 18, 34, 56) ( (3412 gross tons, 1914 net tons). Sold to Argentina in 1947
Remarks:
b) Navemar (1946)
Owners:
1) U. S. Shipping Board
2) Ford Motor Company(1929)
3) U. S. Maritime Commission (1943)
4) Argentina Government
5) Navemar Doc. Anon de Nav. (1946)
Registry number: US. 217764
Hull number: 752
Vessel type: Laker
Height: 26.2
Width: 43.6
Length: 251
Stroke length: 40
Gross tonnage: 2622
Net tonnage: 1617
Materials: Steel
Engine type: Triple expansion
Piston 1: 20
Piston 2: 33
Piston 3: 54