SANTA ANA ID 2869
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.
- Transport/Hospital Ship
- USS SANTA ANA ID-2869 Commissioned February 11 1918 - Decommissioned July 21 1919
- SANTA ANA (Passenger-Cargo Ship) Returned to original owners: W. R. Grace and Co. of New York (Grace Line)
- GUATEMALA (Commercial Service) Transferred 1928 to the Grace subsidiary, Panama Mail Steamship Company and renamed
- SANTA CECILIA (Commercial Service) Renamed 1931
- IRWIN (Commercial Service) Sold 20 May 1936 to Merchants & Miners Transportation Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and renamed
- USAT JOHN L. CLEM Operated as Troop Ship June 1941 - September 1943
- USAHS JOHN L. CLEM Converted to Hospital Ship June 1944
- USAT JOHN L. CLEM Reverted to Troopship 1945
Built 1918 as the cargo and passenger liner SANTA ANA for Grace Line's South American service
Acquired by U.S. Navy February 11 1918
Official number: 215880
Acquired by the War Department March 1941 and renamed
Assigned 1946 to the U.S. Public Health Service
Laid up December 1946 in Reserve Fleet at Brunswick, GA
Name reverted to IRWIN
Sold January 1948 for scrap
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- Covers Page 1 (1919)
Postmarks
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1946-02-12
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Other Information
SANTA ANA
NAMESAKE - Named for the city of Santa Ana, California
JOHN L. CLEM
NAMESAKE - Major General John Lincoln Clem (August 13 1851 – May 13 1937)
Clem was a United States Army General who had served as a boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. He retired from the Army in 1916, having attained the rank of Major General, as the last veteran of the Civil War still on duty in the Armed Forces
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