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General cargo

SS Iowan

IMO 5353191Built 1914

Operated by United States Navy

Photo: Robert Enrique Muller · Public domain · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About SS Iowan

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SS Iowan was a cargo ship built in 1914 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. During World War I she was taken over by the United States Navy and commissioned as USS Iowan (ID-3002). During World War II, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed SS Tashkent (or Ташкент in Cyrillic).
Iowan was built by the Maryland Steel Company as one of eight sister ships for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. In October 1914, five months after she was delivered to American-Hawaiian, Iowan rammed and sank the United Fruit Company steamer Metapan near the entrance to New York Harbor. After repairs, Iowan resumed inter-coastal service via the Panama Canal. When the canal was temporarily closed by landslides in late 1915, Iowan sailed via the Straits of Magellan until the canal reopened in mid 1916. During World War I, USS Iowan carried cargo, animals, and a limited number of passengers to France, and returned nearly 10,000 American troops after the Armistice.
After her Navy service ended in 1919, she was returned to her original owners, who, at least once, chartered her to another shipping company. In May 1922, Iowan rammed and sank the Furness-Prince Line steamer Welsh Prince in the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon, killing seven men in the process.

Quoted from SS Iowan on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 5353191
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
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Flag state: —
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: General cargo
Builder: Maryland Steel
Yard number: 132
Launched: —
Year built: 1914
Designed to carry: —
Owner: American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
Operator on record: United States Navy

Measurements

Gross tonnage: —
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: —
Beam: 53.0 m
Draft: 28.0 m
Service speed: —
Deadweight: 10,175 t

In context

How SS Iowan compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

SS Iowan was built in 1914, making it 112 years old. It is one of 62 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,382 GT. Across the whole of the 1910s the registry holds 482 vessels, median 1,868 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 2 vessels to Maryland Steel, delivered between 1914 and 1914. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5353191 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1960 and which range from 1914 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1914.

Its IMO number, 5353191, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.