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- SS Lake Elsmere was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1074 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) during the massive shipbuilding effort of World War I. The USSB operated the ship until sold in 1923 to the Southern Steamship Company for operation between Philadelphia and Houston as City of Philadelphia. In June 1942 the ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for wartime operation first allocated to the U.S. Army with the WSA operator being Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Lines (AGWILINES), the parent company of Southern Steamship. On 27 May 1943 WSA obtained the vessel under bareboat charter with Army operating the ship under sub-bareboat charter. As USAT City of Philadelphia the ship arrived in Australia to remain the rest of the war in the U.S. Army Services of Supply permanent local fleet with the fleet designation X-104. WSA delivered the ship to the owners at Shanghai in December 1945 where the ship was sold to the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company and renamed Hai Cheh. Later sold to the Republic of China the ship was named Ho Ping Pa Hao 1950 to 1960 and Hoping No. 8 1960 until 1967 when the ship dropped out of registers. (en)
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- Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ashtabula, Ohio (en)
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- Aerial port side view of the American cargo steamer City of Philadelphia. (en)
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- *U.S. Official Number: 219256
*Signal: LTRW (en)
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- City of Philadelphia-Austalian waters AWM.JPG (en)
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- *Lake Elsmere
*City of Philadelphia
*Hai Cheh
*Ho Ping Pa Hao
*Hoping No. 8 (en)
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- Australian War Memorial photo caption notes armament of USAT City of Philadelphia as one 3 inch gun and four 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns. (en)
- Wartime SWPA permanent local fleet identification number: X-104 (en)
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- *USSB
*Southern Steamship Co.
*War Shipping Administration
*U.S. Army
*China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.
*China People’s Steam Navigation Co. (en)
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- *USSB
*Southern Steamship Co.
*China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.
*Republic of China (en)
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- Oil fired steam boilers (en)
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- Triple expansion engines, 1,500 ihp (en)
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- EFC Design 1074 ship (en)
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- SS Lake Elsmere was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1074 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) during the massive shipbuilding effort of World War I. The USSB operated the ship until sold in 1923 to the Southern Steamship Company for operation between Philadelphia and Houston as City of Philadelphia. In June 1942 the ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for wartime operation first allocated to the U.S. Army with the WSA operator being Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Lines (AGWILINES), the parent company of Southern Steamship. On 27 May 1943 WSA obtained the vessel under bareboat charter with Army operating the ship under sub-bareboat charter. As USAT City of Philadelphia the ship arrived in Australia to remain the rest of the war in t (en)
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- *City of Philadelphia (1923—1946) (en)
- *Hai Cheh (1946—1950) (en)
- *Ho Ping Pa Hao (1950—1960) (en)
- *Hoping No. 8 (1960—1967) (en)
- *Lake Elsmere (1919—1923) (en)
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