Category:Buford (ship, 1890)

Type cargo ship
Built by Harland and Wolff shipyard
Launch date 29 August 1890
Completion date 28 October 1890 Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h)
Length overall 113 m (123.6 yd)
Beam 13.4 m (14.7 yd)
Draft 7.9 m (25.9 ft)
Displacement 8,583 t (19,059,409.80 lb)
Main engine triple expansion steam engine
Power 1 × 375 ihp
Speed 10 knots

History

1890: Owner: Atlantic Transport Line
Name: Mississippi
Flag: United States of AmericaUSA
24 June 1898: Owner: U.S. Army Quartermaster Department
2 March 1899: Name: USAT Buford
28 May 1900: Converted into troop ship
14 January 1919:commissioned.
Owner: US Navy
Name: USS Buford (ID 3818)
2 September 1919:decommissioned.
Owner: Army Transport Service
Name: USAT Buford
1923: Owner: Alaskan Siberian Navigation Company
Name: Buford
11 May 1929:Scrapped.
Place: Yokohama