No.290 Hawkeye State launched in 1920

14,123grt for US Shipping Board by Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point

President Pierce 1922 Pacific Mail SS Co (& others including American President Line)

Hugh L. Scott 1941 US Navy

Torpedoed by U130 off North Africa 1942

Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura

U-130 sank 3 US troopships; Edward Rutledge, Hugh L. Scott & Tasker H. Bliss in 5 minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kals

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22043.htm

PRESIDENT PIERCE in American President Lines. From Yoshiaki Nishimura

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