President Wilson
1948
(Wirral Hein Muck WHM-407)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 15,359 tons
- Dimensions: 609 x 75 x 27 ft.
- Machinery: General Electric steam turboelectric, twin screw, 20,000 shp = 19 knots
- Passengers: 778 (324 first class, 454 tourist class)
- Crew: 340
- Builder: Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Alameda, Caifornia, 1948
- Service: Built for American President Lines. California-Far East service. Maiden voyage 27 Apr 1948 San Francisco-Hong Kong. Modernization of passenger accommodations in 1960. Sold to Orient Overseas Line (Panamanian flag), 1973; renamed Oriental Empress. Cruising, 1973-74. Scrapped on Taiwan, 1975.
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