SS Cape Perpetua
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Cape Perpetua |
| Owner | US War Shipping Administration |
| Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California |
| Launched | 1943 |
| Fate | sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Liberty ship C1-B Training Ship |
| Tonnage | 7,189 tons |
| Length | 417 ft 9 in (127.3 m) |
| Beam | 60 ft (18.29 m) |
| Depth | draft 27 ft 7 in (8.40 m) |
| Speed | 14 knots (25.9 kmh) |
| Capacity | 2,060 passengers |
Remarks
Immediately after construction as a standard Liberty C-lB type cargo vessel, the Cape Perpetua loaded at San Francisco for Suva and Noumea. On her return to the US she went (in August) to the conversion yard-General Engineering & Drydock Co. Following conversion, she left San Francisco in late December 1943 and proceeded to Milne Bay, Goodenough Island, Gladstone, Sydney, Buna and Langemak, returning home in April 1944. After another voyage to Manus Island and Sydney, from which she returned in late July, the vessel touched at Seattle and then began a four months' tour in the Southwest Pacific, visiting Honolulu, Eniwetok, and Saipan.
After leaving San Francisco in early January 1945, the ship went by way of Los Angeles and Honolulu to Eniwetok, Leyte and Hollandia. From this trip she returned to San Francisco in late April and again departed from there in early May for a voyage that lasted three months and which took her to Hawaii, Eniwetok, Ulithi, Okinawa and Guam. This was followed by another journey to the Philippines and from there the vessel returned to Seattle. The Cape Perpetua sailed from Puget Sound in December 1945, visited Okinawa and Yokohama, and returned to Seattle in late January 1946. After a month's repairs, she next sailed to Jinsen (Korea), Tokyo and Yokohama. The vessel returned to Seattle in April and left shortly for another voyage to Yokohama