SS Pennsylvanian was a cargo ship built in 1913 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. She was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. Pennsylvanian was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the canal when it opened in August 1914. During World War I she was requisitioned by the U.S. Navy and commissioned as USS Pennsylvanian (ID-3511) in September 1918, but renamed two months later to USS Scranton(pictured). She carried cargo and animals to France, and returned American troops after the Armistice in 1918. After her Navy service ended in 1919, her original name of Pennsylvanian was restored and she resumed relatively uneventful cargo service for her original owners over the next twenty years. Early in World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration, and shipped cargo on New York – Caribbean routes and transatlantic routes. In mid-July 1944, Pennsylvanian was scuttled as part of the breakwater for one of the Mulberry artificial harbors built to support the Normandy Invasion. (Full article...)
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