The illustration can be found on the url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siboney.jpg . The original was made by Loren C. Holmberg, this letterpress reproduction dates around 1919 and is part of the collection of captain Clarence S. Williams property of the U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph NH 103262-KN.
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1. The USS Siboney (AKV-12). The website http://www.hullnumber.com/AKV-12 mentioned her serving during the First World War as part of the Cruiser and Transport Force. She was purchased as the Oriente by the US navy and renamed Siboney in February 1918. After she was decommissioned in September of the next year she was handed over to the US Army and as the ss Siboney by the New York and Cuba Mail Shipping Company used as mail ship. In 1941 she became again an army charter and served until 1948 as the army transport Siboney and the army ship Charles. She was then decommissioned and broken up in 1957.
The website http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/id2999.htm reported that she was in August 1917 launched as the Oriente at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a displacement of 11,298 tons and a gross tonnage of 7,652 tons.
The website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Siboney_(ID-2999) mentioned her shipyard as being William Cramp&Sons Shipbuilding Company where she was launched on 15 August and renamed Siboney on 28 February 1918 although not she was not earlier purchased and commissioned as on 8 April 1918. Decommissioned on 10 September 1919 and given back to the Ward Line until she was chartered in 1940 by the American Export Lines serving on the route Jersey City and Lisbon until she was taken over by the US army on 28 May 1941. This website claims that’s he was renamed after being converted in to a hospital ship between January and September 1944. With a displacement of 11,298 tons were her dimensions 135,10 x 18,3 x 7,47 metres or 443’3”x 60’x 24’6” and with a speed of 17,5 knots. As a troop transports numbered her crew 346 men, was she armed with 2-1pdr gun and 2 machineguns and able to transport 3,100-3,900 men. In merchant service numbered her crew 127 men. While used as an army transport she had a tonnage of 6,937 tons with a speed of 16 knots and a range of 6,000 nautical miles and able to carry 3,300m3 and 1,2101 men. After her conversion into the hospital ship was her tonnage increased to 7,587 tons and was her range now 8,000 nautical miles. She had no cargo capacity anymore but hospital facilities for 704 men.
