Geschichte
This freighter was built in 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in Kearney, NJ.
Historische Notizen
This vessel was sponsored by Mrs Brebon B. Somervell and launched as the General R. M. Blatchford but renamed.
In 1956-1958 this vessel operated between California and Hawaii.
Eigentümer & Kapitäne
In 1944 she was owned by the United States Navy.
In 1945 she was a troop transport owned by the United States Army Transportation Service.
She was decommissioned at New York 14 February 1946 and returned to the Maritime Administration for peacetime operations as an Army transport until 10 March 1948.
In 1949-1951 she was owned by the American Export Line.
She served briefly during the Korean War as USAT General W. P. Richardson before entering commercial service.
In 1957 she was bought by the Hawaiian Steamship Company and renamed Leilani.
In 1959 she was seized by the US Maritime Administration and put up for auction.
In 1960 she was owned by the American President Line.
In 1970 she was owned by the Chandris Line, Greece.
In 1972 she was owned by the Ares Shipping Corporation and named Emerald Seas.
She was owned by Eastern Steamship, she was owned by Festival Cruises in 1992 and renamed Sapphire Seas.
In 1998 she was in use at Lisbon as a Hotel Ship for Expo 98. 1999 she entered service with the World Cruise Company, but was taken out of service again shortly thereafter, in May 2000, and laid up once more at Eleusis. , in 2004.
She was scrapped in India in 2005
Kapitäne
Captain Joseph S. Rosenthal, USCG (1944);
Namensbedeutung
Wilds Preston Richardson (20 March 1861 in Hunt County, Texas – 20 May 1929) was an officer of the United States Army notable for being an explorer and geographer of Alaska in the early decades of the 20th century. During World War I, he was promoted to the rank brigadier general and, because of his cold weather experience, sent to lead the Polar Bear Expedition, part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Richardson retired after the war and died in Washington, D.C., in 1929.
Referenzen
- Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- en.wikipedia.org ↗ (website viewed 04/09.2021)
- en.wikipedia.org ↗ (website viewed 09/01/2024)
