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From: "Asprey, David" <>
Subject: RE: [Mar] SS Pan Massachusetts
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:08:38 -0000


on December 02, 2000 9:23 AM L Stewart wrote

<<<<
> What sort of a ship was the American vessel "SS Pan
> Massachusetts"; was it transporting troops from the Pacific Islands to
> Australia and where was it when it caught fire on 25 May 1944?
>>>>

Others have already identified that there were two PAN-MASSACHUSETTSes. The
second ine was not lost in her 1944 fire.

Built at Daniel K Ludwig's shipyard Welding Ship Yard Inc (Yard No 12) at
Norfolk VA in 1943, she was a tanker of 11015grt 18900tdw 515'11" x 70'.

I don't know about the circumstances of her 1944 fire (though three of the
crew lost their lives) but can add that she was rebuilt in 1954, following
the 1953 collision with tanker PHOENIX. She had four subsequent names
before being scrapped in Hong Kong in 1966.



David Asprey

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