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2 unusual facts about SS President Grant


Robert Lincoln Poston

While on board the SS President Grant, he contracted a fever and died of lobar pneumonia.

SS President Grant

SS President Grant originally the 1903 Servian, purchased by Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Actien-Gesellschaft renamed the SS President Grant in 1907, interned and seized on U.S. entry into WW I, served as USS President Grant(SP-3014), transferred to U.S. Army and renamed USAT Republic alternately served Army and Navy as USS Republic (AP-33) and again as USAT Republic until sold for scrap 1952.



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