SS Allegheny, a 5,486 gross ton coastal passenger ship, was built at Kearny, New Jersey, in 1923 for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. She was taken over by the War Shipping Administration in November 1941 and converted at Baltimore to a training ship for merchant marine sailors. Upon completion of conversion in May 1942 she was delivered at Baltimore to the Coast Guard, which since 1938 had had the responsibility of training merchant marine personnel. Almost immediately this training duty was shifted to the War Shipping Administration, and Allegheny was transferred to that agency in July 1942. Probably renamed American Seafarer at this time, she served as a Maritime Commission training ship for the rest of the war. S.S. American Seafarer was placed in reserve at Suisun Bay, California, in January 1946 and was sold for scrapping in January 1949.
This page features the only view we have concerning the coastal passenger ship Allegheny and the training ship American Seafarer.
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Page made 3 September 2005