President Harding

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PRESIDENT HARDING
Builder : New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Completed : December 1921.
Gross tonnage: 13869.
Dimensions: 535ft x 72ft. Depth 41ft.
Engines: Four steam turbines, single-reduction geared.
Screws: Twin.
Normal speed : 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation : 320 cabin and 324 third class.
Maiden voyage: New York–Plymouth–Cherbourg–Bremen in March 1922 as the Lone Star State

Built for the United States Government and christened Lone Star State.
Transferred to the United States Lines in 1922 and renamed President Taft in May 1922;
President Harding in late 1922.
Engaged in the New York–Cobh–London service until mid-1932 when she was reallocated to the New York–Plymouth–Le Havre–Hamburg run eastbound and calling at Le Havre–Southampton¬Cobh westbound.
She is classified as a cargo passenger liner.
Sold to the Antwerp Navigation Co in February 1940 and renamed Ville de Burges.
Following this transfer, which was enacted with the Belgian company so that American vessels might trade in the war zone area, she ceased to carry passengers.
Sunk by Nazi bombers in the River Scheldt, Holland, on May 14, 1940.
Sister ship: President Roosevelt.
Maldive Is. SG2686
North Atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900 by N T Cairis

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PRESIDENT HARDING
Builder : New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Completed : December 1921.
Gross tonnage: 13869.
Dimensions: 535ft x 72ft. Depth 41ft.
Engines: Four steam turbines, single-reduction geared.
Screws: Twin.
Normal speed : 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation : 320 cabin and 324 third class.
Maiden voyage: New York–Plymouth–Cherbourg–Bremen in March 1922 as the Lone Star State

Built for the United States Government and christened Lone Star State.
Transferred to the United States Lines in 1922 and renamed President Taft in May 1922;
President Harding in late 1922.
Engaged in the New York–Cobh–London service until mid-1932 when she was reallocated to the New York–Plymouth–Le Havre–Hamburg run eastbound and calling at Le Havre–Southampton¬Cobh westbound.
She is classified as a cargo passenger liner.
Sold to the Antwerp Navigation Co in February 1940 and renamed Ville de Bruges.
Following this transfer, which was enacted with the Belgian company so that American vessels might trade in the war zone area, she ceased to carry passengers.
Sunk by Nazi bombers in the River Scheldt, Holland, on May 14, 1940.
Sister ship: President Roosevelt.
Maldive Is. SG2686
North Atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900 by N T Cairis

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

On14/05-' 40, after departure from Antwerp by German aircraft attacked and shot on fire, she was put on a sandbar near Doel (51 ° 18 ' 36 N 04 ° 16 ' 24 E) and burned completely, 3 deaths, 149 survivors, after the war, she was scrapped on site, ' 52 completely cleaned up.
Source: book De Westerschelde bij storm en mist, by Heijkoop C.