SS Dorchester
 SS Dorchester | |
| History | |
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| Name | Dorchester |
| Namesake | Dorchester, Boston |
| Operator | Merchants and Miners Transportation Company |
| Route | Miami–Boston |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
| Yard number | 289 |
| Laid down | September 10, 1925[1] |
| Launched | March 20, 1926[1] |
| Acquired | Delivered July 17, 1926.[2] |
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| Name | SS Dorchester (troop transport) |
| Owner | Control: War Shipping Administration |
| Operator | Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines) |
| Acquired | January 24, 1942 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk, February 3, 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger ship / Troopship |
| Tonnage | 5,649 GRT[3] |
| Length | 368 ft (112 m)[3] |
| Beam | 52 ft (16 m)[3] |
| Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m)[3] |
| Propulsion | Triple expansion engine[3] |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)[3] |
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