Talk:SS Corvus (1919)

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I worked to make page more organized and cleaned up grammar as it was translated. The large citations could be cut down more. Removed rough translation tag Ljnyblade (talk) 20:16, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frances Smith name & Army Transportation Corps agreement/allocation.[edit]

The reference noting christening as Frances Smith with almost immediate rename as Corvus explains the note under the ship's information in Norman L. McKellar's Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921 on page 479b. McKellar found that name associated with the ship in the 1920 Lloyds Register and "FAIRPLAY casualty reports" for 1920. As a note, McKellar has a typo in the ships official number, 215169 instead of the correct 215269. The ship under the War Shipping Administration operation, 20 December 1941 — 10 January 1945, is noted in the MARAD vessel status card as being allocated to the U.S. Army under a "TCA" (Transportation Corps Agreement) the entire period with Colmar SS Co., still owner, as the WSA operating agent. The ship in effect fell short of being "officially" a United States Army Transport (USAT) only by not being a bareboat charter. Army FM55-105, Water Transportation: Oceangoing Vessels, notes allocated vessels are assigned to an Army Port of Embarkation and be assigned an TC "cargo security officer". Palmeira (talk) 13:33, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]