Saturday, October 26, 2019

SS President Cleveland

Old Tokyo website with a write up of the combination passenger freighter SS President Cleveland.
http://www.oldtokyo.com/s-s-president-cleveland-american-president-lines-c-1960/


Combination passenger freighters carry significant amounts of cargo and a few hundred passengers. These are common in the Verge where the number of passengers is low, but is higher than the dozen or so that can be carried on a regular freighter. These are similar to the ships in the 20th century Pacific trade prior to the introduction of the jumbo jet. Not enough passengers to have a large dedicated passenger ship, to many passengers to all use tramp freighters, and not enough cargo to have just a cargo vessel.

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