SS Manchuria (1903)

USS Manchuria (ID-1633) underway in 1919
History
Name	Manchuria
Namesake	Manchuria
Owner	1902: Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1915: International Mercantile Marine Co.
Operator	1902: Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1915: Atlantic Transport Line
Laid down	3 September 1902
Launched	2 November 1903
Sponsored by	Miss Laura Wick
Fate	Expropriated by U.S. Navy, 1918
United States
Name	Manchuria
Acquired	10 April 1918
Commissioned	25 April 1918
Decommissioned	11 September 1919
Identification	ID-1633
Fate	returned to IMM
Name	1919:Manchuria 1928:President Johnson 1948:Santa Cruz
Namesake	1928: President Andrew Johnson
Owner	1919: International Mercantile Marine Co. 1928: Dollar Steamship Lines 1938: United States Maritime Commission 1948: Tagus Navigational Co.
Operator	1919: Atlantic Transport Line 1923: Panama Pacific Line 1928: Dollar Steamship Lines 1938: American President Lines (through WSA) 1948: Societa Saicen
Route	1919: New York–Hamburg 1923: New York–Panama Canal–San Francisco 1928: round-the-world service 1931: (Laid up)
Fate	Scrapped 1952
General characteristics
Tonnage	13,639 GRT (1904 design) to 16,111 GRT Lloyd's Register 1945–46
Displacement	27,000 tons[1]
Length	615 ft 8 in (187.66 m)[2]
Beam	65 ft (19.8 m)[2]
Draft	33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) (load mean)[2]
Speed	16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Armament	1 × 6-inch (150 mm) gun 2 × 4-inch (100 mm) guns 1 × 1-pounder guns 2 × machine guns

SS Manchuria was a passenger and cargo liner launched 1903 for the San Francisco-trans Pacific service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. During World War I the ship was commissioned 25 April 1918–11 September 1919 for United States Navy service as USS Manchuria (ID-1633). After return to civilian service the ship was acquired by the Dollar Steamship Line in 1928 until that line suffered financial difficulties in 1938 and ownership of Manchuria was taken over by the United States Maritime Commission which chartered the ship to American President Lines which operated her as President Johnson. During World War II she operated as a War Shipping Administration transport with American President Lines its agent allocated to United States Army requirements. After World War II, she was returned to American President Lines, sold and renamed Santa Cruz. The liner was scrapped in Italy in 1952.