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Survivors were landed in France on 21 October where they were immediately cared for by the Red Cross. Those that died were some of the first to come under the new war-insurance law allowing payment of $ 6,000 ($ 142,700 in 2024) payable to families in installments of $ 25 ($ 590 in 2024) per month
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Brigadier General William Sharp McNair who had been ordered to return to take command of 151st Field Artillery Brigade. A total of 67 people died in the sinking. The loss of life was the first case in the war involving a large number of US casualties.
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for use as a civilian crewed US Army
Chartered Transport (USACT). The ship was among those in the first troop convoy to depart on 14 June, after considerable confusion and delays in troop loading, from the
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Transports (USAT) while the WW I abbreviation for Army chartered civilian vessels was USACT (US Army Chartered Transport).
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circled in a search for the submarine until about 8:30 with no sign of a submarine found and the search for survivors and the submarine discontinued at 10:30.
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reportedly sinking in four and a half minutes after being hit. The ship was in a small convoy composed of
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America's first convoy. The troop ships are the
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Commerce—Bureau of Navigation (1918).
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421 ft 11.5 in (128.6 m) on load line
1220:. Hugh Mifflin Company, Riverside Press Cambridge.
1197:(April 1917). J.S. Hines, San Francisco, California
1107:The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony
1028:. How America Went to War. Yale university Press.
1022:Crowell, Benedict; Wilson, Robert Forrest (1921).
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467:and another Army chartered ship that turned back,
1299:Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in October 1917
1120:Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships
438:was turned over 26 May 1917 and chartered by the
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589:had sunk and began picking up survivors while
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1170:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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1243:The 151st Field Artillery Brigade
1109:. London: The St Katherine Press.
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368:53.2 feet (16.2 m) and mean
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997:Colton, T. (September 3, 2014).
213:10,500 tons (normal coal supply)
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1240:Russell, Richard M. (1919).
1103:The Marconi Press Agency Ltd
1005:. NT. Colton. Archived from
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89:William Cramp & Sons
1077:Kidd, Isaac C. (1917).
600:Survivors of the USACT
455:, a new Navy transport
283:triple-expansion engine
180:General characteristics
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1025:The Road to France II
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1009:on 20 December 2014
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628:over twenty years.
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675:Miramar Ship Index
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1306:Shipwrecks
1257:7 December
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670:(2204018)"
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426:Following
276:Propulsion
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