BIC Cristóbal Colón Cámarillo (1911)
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The SS Puerto Francisco in 1911.
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History | |
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Creeperopolis | |
Name: | SS Puerto Francisco |
Namesake: | Puerto Francisco |
Owner: | Gold Star Line |
Route: | Salvador–Bostonia |
Ordered: | 13 September 1907 |
Builder: | Díaz–Mori Shipbuilding |
Laid down: | 16 December 1908 |
Launched: | 20 October 1910 |
Completed: | 31 May 1911 |
In service: | 11 June 1911 |
Homeport: | Salvador |
Fate: |
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History | |
Creeperopolis | |
Name: | BIC Puerto Francisco |
Owner: | Creeperian Navy |
Acquired: | 6 January 1933 |
Commissioned: | 18 March 1934 |
Homeport: | Salvador |
Nickname(s): | El Grande |
Fate: |
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Status: | Wreck |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Puerto Francisco-class |
Type: | Ocean liner |
Tonnage: | 45,324 |
Length: | 965 pi 4 pl (882 ft 6 in) |
Beam: | 101 pi 5 pl (92 ft 9 in) |
Height: | 191 pi 5 pl (175 ft) |
Draught: | 37 pi 10 pl (34 ft 7 in) |
Decks: | 9 decks |
Installed power: | 30 boilers |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 30.56 mch (26.46 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried: | 36 lifeboats |
Capacity: | 2,435 passengers (until 1933) |
Troops: | 3,000 (after 1933) |
Crew: | 950 |
The BIC Puerto Francisco, formerly called the SS Puerto Francisco, was a Creeperian ocean liner turned troop ship built in 1911. It was owned and operated by the Gold Star Line from 1911 until 1933, when it was requisitioned by the Creeperian Navy for use as a troop transport ship during the Creeperian Civil War. The ship was scuttled on 28 December 1941 during an encounter with the BNC DA-4 submarine of the National Council for Peace and Order to prevent her capture.