PRESIDENT POLK
Builder : New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
Completed : March 1921.
Gross tonnage: 10513.
Dimensions: 522ft x 62ft. Depth 42ft.
Engines: Two four-cylinder, triple expansion. Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads: Thirteen.
Decks: Three.
Normal speed : 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation : 140 in a single class.
Maiden voyage: New York–London in August 1922 as the President Polk.
Built for the United States Government and christened Granite State.
Managed by the United States Mail Line until taken over by the United States Lines when the former went bankrupt in August 1921.
Renamed President Polk in 1922. She and her four sisters are classified as cargo-passenger liners.
Engaged in the London–New York service until sold to the Dollar Line in September 1923 with delivery in early 1924.
Consolidated into the American President Lines in 1938 and renamed President Taylor in 1940.
Stranded off Canton Island in the Pacific Ocean and abandoned on February 13, 1943.
Sister ships: President Adams, President Garfield, President Monroe, and President Van Buren.
Canal Zone SG162
North Atlantic Liners since 1900 by N T Cairis