American merchant ship President Harrison considered to be lost according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 23 December 1941

An item reported that the USA-flagged merchant ship President Harrison last heard from her on 7 December when she was in the China Sea bound for North China to evacuate the US marines at Tiensin was considered to be lost while she was so long overdue. Presumed to be captured by the Japanese.

Note

1. Design 1095 passenger-cargo ship. Ordered as the Wolverine State on 1 July 1918, laid down with yard number 248 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden on 13 May 1919, launched on 16 September 1920, commissioned on 6 January 1921, renamed President Harrison in April 1922, chartered by the US Navy 27-28 November 1941, run aground on Shaweishan Island on 8 December 1941, salvaged and repaired by the Japanese and renamed Kakko Maru later Kachidoki Maru and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pampanito in the Luzon Strait on 12 September 1944.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 13 dated 23 December 1941.