GEORGE W. GOETHALS - goethals.htm

BUILT: 1943	BEAM: 69'-6"	DRAFT: 27'-4"
LENGTH: 489'	CARGO [cu ft]: 167,081	PASS [troop ship]: 1,976
PROPULSION: Turbine	RADIUS [miles]: 13,000	TONS: 12,093
TYPE:	SPEED [knots]: 16.5	DEPENDENTS TO JAPAN: ?

Original name -- PASCAGOULA -- but never operated as such.

Constructed as a troop ship, and named in honor of Maj Gen George Washington Goethals, who successfully engineered construction of the Panama Canal.

Altered in 1946 for carrying military dependents [273 adults, 179] children.

Ref: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22182.htm