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Naval Historical Center # NH 55090
| Tonnage | 8300 tons standard |
| Dimensions | 449' by 58' by 24' 136.86m by 17.68m by 7.32m |
| Maximum speed | 14 knots |
| Complement | 286 |
| Armament | 4 3"/50 AA guns |
| Machinery |
1-shaft General Electric geared
turbine (6000 shp) 6 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
| Passengers | 1250 nominal. Such ships were often operated at 150% capacity
in practice. |
The Chaumonts were completed for the Navy in 1921 as Hogg Island Type B troop transports, in which role they served throughout the 1920s and 1930s. They were capable of transporting at least a Marine regiment. The ships were notoriously unstable, limiting the amount of antiaircraft armament they could ship. As a result, they were converted to hospital ships.
| Chaumont |
Pensacola Convoy | Converted to hospital ship Samaritan 1943-8 to 1944-3-1 (San Francisco) |
| St. Mihiel |
En route to Alaska from the the U.S. West Coast | Turned over to the Army for use as a hospital ship 1943-10 |
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