NOPATIN ID 2195
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
- Passenger / Cargo Ship
- MANHATTAN (Commercial Service) Owned and operated by American Railroad Co
- USS MANHATTAN ID-2195 Commissioned January 28 1918
- USS NOPATIN ID-2195 Renamed April 11 1918
- De WITT CLINTON (Commercial Service) Sold July 1920 to the Hudson River Day Line and renamed
- USAT COLONEL FREDERICK C. JOHNSON Acquired by War Shipping Administration February 1942 and renamed
- DERECKTOR (Commercial Service) Sold to Samuel Derecktor who operated a shipping firm in New York City, renamed, and refitted.
- GALILAH (Commercial Service) Handed over in Marseilles to the Zim Isreal Lines, renamed, and began transporting Jewish migrants from around Europe to Israel
- GALATIN (Commercial Service) Sold in 1952 to an Italian company and renamed
Built 1913 by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE
Acquired by U.S. Navy January 11 1918
Decommissioned August 15 1919
Struck from Naval Register August 15 1919
Laid up 1932
Returned to commercial service June - September 1939 and then laid up again.
Laid up 1947 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group
Registered under the Panamanian flag with owners given as Brownsam Company of Panama City and sailed to Marseilles, France.
Renamed in late 1948 after arrival in Isreal
Laid up in Haifa, Israel until April 8, 1953 and then sailed to Italy for scrapping
Scrapped 1953
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Postmarks
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - Former name retaned
Additional Naming History Sources
This SSMaritime.com page has good history on the liners belonging to the ZIM Israel Navigation Company.
Old Timers - Boats of the Hudson River 1965
contains more history especially while the ship was named DERECKTOR.
"Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1949 A-L" has three separate entries for name changes that occurred in 1948 - part of which appears to be
an attempt to catch up for changes during WWII.
- Page 419 has the first entry which is for "De Witt Clinton". The owner is listed as Samuel Derecktor and the ship is registered in New York with United States registry. There is also the notation: Now "Col. Frederick C. Johnson", see No. 90024 in Supplement
- Supplement entry No. 90024 is the entry for "Col. Frederick C. Johnson". The previous name is listed as "De Witt Clinton" with notation "-48" indicating that the change occurred (or, in this case, was registered by Lloyd's) in 1948. That actual date for the name change is 1942. The owner is listed as Samuel Derecktor and the ship is registered in New York with United States registry. There is also the notation: Now "Derecktor", see No. 90697 in Supplement
- Supplement entry No. 90697 is the entry for "Derecktor". The owner is still listed as Samuel Derecktor but the ship is now registered in Panama.
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1950 A-L page 489 has an entry for "Derecktor"
but with the notation: Now "Galilah", see. No. 36478 in Supplement.
Supplement entry No. 36478 has the entry for "Galilah".
It shows the previous name as "Derecktor" with notation "-49" indicating that the name change occurred in 1949.
The owner is now "Ness Shipping Co." and the ship is registered in Haifa, Israel.
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1954 A-L still has an entry for "Galilah"
but with notation: Broken up
Lloyd's Register of Shipping Casualty Returns 1953 on
page 15 in section "Steamships and Motorships Condemned, Broken up, Etc, Not Consequent Upon Casualty
(During the Quarter Ended 30th June, 1953 - As Reported Up To 25th November, 1953)", has an entry for
"Galilah" with registry in Israel being broken up in Italy.
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