An item dated New York 23 October referred to the New York Times which reported that the American department of war bought the passenger ship President Roosevelt from the United States Line.(1) She measured 13,869 tons and was to be used as troop transport. Since the outbreak of the war was she used on a line towards Bermuda.
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1. Launched at the shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding on 6 July 1921 and named Peninsular State for the United States Shipping Board. She was in January 1922 completed, renamed four months later President Pierce and again renamed in August President Roosevelt. October 1940 she was transferred to the War Department and again renamed now Joseph T. Dickman and converted at the shipyard of the Atlantic Basin Iron Works of Brooklyn into a troop transport. After this she was on 27 May a year later handed over to the navy and on 10 June commissioned as the Ap-26 since 1 February 1943 APA-13. She was decommissioned after the Second World War on 7 March 1946 and stricken on 12 April. Given back to the Maritime Commission on 22 January a year later and next to the National Defense Reserve Fleet which sold her on 9 January 1948 to be broken up. She was a Harris-class attack transport with a displacement of 13.529-21.900 (full load) tons and as dimensions 535’2”x 72’4”x 31’3”. She was able to transport 2056 soldiers.
