WILLARD A. HOLBROOK - holbrook.htm

BUILT: 1921	BEAM: 72'	DRAFT: 30'-7"
LENGTH: 535'	CARGO [cu ft]: 45,037	PASS [troop ship]: 1,890
PROP: Turbine 2	RADIUS [miles]: 19,000	TONS: 14,812
TYPE:	SPEED [knots]: 17	DEPENDENTS TO JAPAN: ?

Original names - BUCKEYE STATE, PRESIDENT TAFT - prior to WWII operated by American President Lines.

Received from owners in June 1941 and named in honor of Maj Gen Willard Ames Holbrook, former Chief of Calvary.

Selected to be come a hospital ship and be named the ARMIN W. LEUCHNER, but with the end of WW II the conversion was modified for carrying 763 dependents and she her Holbrook name restored.