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USAT Sheridan
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 USAQMD Sheridan


USAT Sheridan 1913 International Radio Call Sign:
Able- Tare - Sail
 ATS
Transport
  • Laid down, date unknown, as SS Massachusetts by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland
  • Launched, 17 December 1891
  • Completed, 5 March 1892
  • Purchased by the US Army Quartermaster Department, 14 July 1898, from the Atlantic Transport Line
  • Commissioned, USAT Department Transport No. 22.
  • Named USAQM Department Transport Sheridan, 9 January 1899 , in honor of Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, commanding general of the U.S. Army 1883-88
  • Assigned to the A.T.S. Pacific Fleet with homeport at Fort Mason, CA.
  • Sheridan made several voyages between 15 February and 5 July 1920 to evacuate elements of the Czech Legion from Vladivostok and disembarked them at Fiume, Croatia
  • Her voyage for the U.S. Army Transport Service was in June 1922 and soon after she was turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board
  • Sold, 29 December 1922, to the Union Construction Company of Oakland, CA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in October 1923 at San Francisco, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,496 t.
    Length 445'5"
    Beam 49'2"
    Draft 30'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passenger capacity unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    Merchant Service
    Sheridan
    301307412    		 109k Atlantic Transport Line freighter SS Massachusetts underway, 1 Dece4mber 1897.
    Milner Library, Illinois State University    		 Robert HUrst
    USQMD Transport NO. 23 / USAT Sheridan
    Sheridan 133k
    Namesake
    Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831[1] – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
    Wikimedia Common    		 Tommy Trampp
    Sheridan
    301307404    		 71k USAQMD Transport No. 22 moored pierside, July 1898, location unknown.
    spanamwar.com    		 John Spivey
    Sheridan 53k USAT Sheridan underway, date and location unknown.
    US National Archives RG-11 Records of the US Army Signal Corps still photo collection    		 US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4.
    Sheridan
    301304710    		 257k USAT Sheridan underway in 1905, location unknown.
    Photo taken from the book "History of the Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry" (14784333855) by Ullysses Grant McAlexander, (1864-1936). Publisher. Regimental Press. Thirteenth Infantry. Frank D. Gunn. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14784333855    		 Robert Hurst
    Sheridan
    301307408    		 83k USAT Sheridan being towed into Pearl Harbor, 6 October 1906, after grounding. She is being towed by USS Iroquois visible beyond the ship's bow. Sheridan is listing to port. To improve her stability, she was lashed to a barge on her port side, and the scow Melanchthon, visible on her starboard side.
    Photo ran in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Unknown photographer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before, 1 January 1930.    		 Robert Hurst
    Sheridan
    301307413    		 137k USAT Sheridan dockside at the US Army Quartermaster Department Wharf No.2, Manila, Philippine Islands, 2 December 1909.
    This image was published as a postcard. Unknown photographer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.    		 Robert Hurst
    Sheridan 79k USAT Sheridan underway, date and location unknown.
    ©J.D. Givens Photographer 1912    		 Tommy Trampp
    Sheridan
    301307406    		 136k USAT Sheridan arriving at the port of Manila, Philippines with troops aboard in early 1900s.
    FLICKR - by Ronnie Bell    		 John Spivey
    Sheridan
    301307405    		 209k USAT Sheridan moored pierside at Honolulu, T.H, 19 August 1919
    FLICKR - U.S. Army Transportation Corps.    		 John Spivey
    Sheridan
    301307407    		 148k USAT Sheridan in ice at Vladivostok, Russia 1919-1920.
    Photo from www.picryl.com by National Parks Gallery    		 John Spivey
    Sheridan
    301307409    		 172k "Looking from the bridge of the USS Brooklyn over the ice-filled waters of Golden Horn Bay at Vladivostok, Russia to the USAT Sheridan, listing to starboard with a shifting of her cargo."
    Photographer Paul Thompson, photo was printed in the 4 May 1919 issue of the "New York Tribune. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before, 1 January 1930.    		 Robert Hurst
    Sheridan
    301307414    		 192k USAT Sheridan with members of the Czechoslovak Legion onboard ready to depart Vladivostok, Russia on 28 February 1920 for Trieste with 1,602 to 1,949 people (officers and soldiers) on board. She arrived at Trieste on 17 April 1920.
    Photographer unknown. Photo taken from The book "For Freedom: A Pictorial Chronicle of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Movement in Russia 1914-1920. [Book 4, Part V, From the Volga to the Urals, Highway, Return to the Homeland, 1918-1920]" . Prague: "Za svobodu" Publishing House, year of publication 1929, 900 pages, page 824.] Editors Vanek, Otakar, ed., Holecek, Vojtech, ed. and Medek, Rudolf, ed.    		 Robert Hurst
    The history for USAQMD/USAT Sheridan is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol 4
    Army Transportation Service Ship's Masters
    01CAPT. Carleton, William A., A.T.S.January 1916 - 16 June 1918
    02CAPT. Murphy, James J., A.T.S.16 June 1918 - 8 March 1920
    03CAPT. Johnson, W. C., A.T.S.8 March 1920 - 8 July 1921
    04CAPT. Murphy, James J., A.T.S.8 July 1921 - 29 December 1922
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