USAT McClellan
USAT McClellan c. 1917 or earlier
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| Name: | USAT McClellan |
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| Builder: | Andrew Leslie & Co. (England) |
| Christened: | Port Victor |
| Completed: | 1885 |
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| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1922 |
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| Type: | Passenger-cargo steamship |
| Tonnage: | 2,793 tons, 1,827 grt |
| Length: | 336 ft (102 m) |
| Beam: | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Installed power: | 400 hp triple expansion steam engines |
| Propulsion: | Screw propeller |
| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
USAT McClellan was a United States Army transport ship that saw service during the Spanish–American War and World War I. She also participated in the occupation of Veracruz in 1914.
McClellan was originally SS Port Victor, a steel-hulled passenger-cargo screw steamer built for Anglo-Australian service in the 1880s. Eventually converted into an early example of a refrigeration ship, Port Victor continued in Australian service until shortly before her sale in 1898 to the United States government for use as a transport during the Spanish-American War.
After the war, she was renamed USAT McClellan and employed as a U.S. Army transport for more than twenty years, supplying the garrisons in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Sold in 1919, she briefly returned to mercantile service under the name SS Hastier, until being damaged by a fire in 1920 and subsequently scrapped.
Port Victor was built by Andrew Leslie & Co. at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1885 for W. Milburn & Co., a company which operated a fleet of ships between Britain and Australia under a subsidiary known as the Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Company.Port Victor was the Milburn Line's first steel-hulled ship, as well as being the first of the company's ships to have a clipper bow and be fitted with a triple expansion engine. Like most of the Anglo-Australian Line's ships, Port Victor was named after an Australian port, in this case that of Port Victor, South Australia (now known as Victor Harbor).
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