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Photo # NH 98767:  SS Brazil at San Francisco in late 1945 or early 1946

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Brazil (Passenger Liner, 1928).
Originally named Virginia

SS Virginia, a 20,614 gross ton (30,924 tons displacement) passenger liner, was built at Newport News, Virginia, in 1928 for the Panama Pacific Line, which operated a service from New York to San Francisco via Havana and Panama. As part of the formation by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Good Neighbor Fleet, Virginia and her two sisters, California and Pennsylvania, were sold to the Maritime Commission in 1937, rebuilt with one funnel instead of two, renamed Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina respectively, and placed on the South American route serving ports between New York and Buenos Aires under the operation of Moore-McCormack Lines.

In March 1942 Brazil became a War Shipping Administration troop transport, operated by Moore-McCormack. During the rest of the Second World War she made over 30 overseas voyages from United States ports, mostly in the Atlantic. The end of the conflict found her in the Pacific, where she had also operated during part of 1943, and she called at San Francisco in September 1945 for repairs and again in January 1946 before returning to the Atlantic. In March 1946 Brazil was part of the Army's "bride fleet," which brought wives and children of U.S. servicemen from Europe to the United States. She was released in August 1946 for reconversion to civilian service and rejoined Moore-McCormack in May 1948 on the South American route. S.S. Brazil was placed in the Maritime Administration's James River, Virginia, reserve fleet in December 1957 and was sold for scrapping in January 1964.

This page features the best view we have of the passenger liner Brazil, which was named Virginia until 1937.


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Photo #: NH 98767

SS Brazil


At San Francisco, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.
She is being assisted by an Army large tug (LT).

Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 


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