Arosa Kulm Explained
SS Arosa Kulm was a passenger ship which was launched at
Hog Island, Pennsylvania in 1919 and completed in 1920.
Arosa Kulm started as the U.S. Army Transport
Cantigny, a 7,555-
gross register ton troopship with a speed of 17kn
[1] [2] and was sold in 1923/1924 to commercial transatlantic freight and passenger transport as
American Banker. In 1940 the ship was transferred
[3] to a Belgian shipping company as
Ville d'Anvers together with seven other idle American ships and was the only one of the eight ships to survive World War II to re-enter passenger service in 1946 with 200 berths as
City of Athens. In 1947 as
Protea and refitted with berths for over 965 persons.
[4] the accommodations were probably the worst of any ship of that time.
[5] In 1952 the accommodations were adjusted to 900 and she was renamed
Arosa Kulm after being sold to
Panama's
Arosa Line.
Australia was visited four times by Arosa Kulm.[6]
In addition to serving immigrants, Arosa Kulm was chartered by American Field Service, an exchange organization bringing numerous exchange students between Europe and the U.S.
Arosa Kulm was scrapped at Bruges in Belgium in 1959.
See also
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsAA.html The Ships List
- http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/army-sh/usash-ag/cantigny.htm Naval Historical Center
- Web site: Arosa Kulm History . 2011-05-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928112122/http://www.swiss-ships.ch/schiffe-ausland/arosa_line/arosa-kulm_HOER/arosa-kulm_HOER-history-en.htm . 2011-09-28 . dead .
- http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsAA.html The Ship List
- http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/army-sh/usash-ag/cantigny.htm Naval Historical Center
- Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977 by Peter Plowman, Chiswick Publications 2006,
