Category:Shawnee (ship, 1927)
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- Built at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, USA
- yard nr 307
- 18 April 1927 launched and named Shawnee.
- 14 July 1927 Completed for Clyde Steamship Company, New York. Put into service on the New York - Miami route.
- 1939 sold to United States Lines.
- 1940 sold to Agwilines, New York. Soon after requisitioned and rebuilt at New Orleans to become a troop-ship.
- War service in South American and Caribbean waters and the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1944 repositioned to the Pacific.
- March 1946 decommissioned and returned to Agwilines.
- 1947 sold to Iberian Star Line, a Portugese company registered in Panama. Renamed City of Lisbon. Refurbished at New York.
- 24 April 1947 first regular sailing from Lisbon to Santos, Brazil, with calls at Funchal and Rio de Janeiro.
- 17 May 1947, while en route with 600 passengers, heavily damaged in a collison with Italian cargo ship Villa di Brugine off Vigo, Spain. .
- Sold after provisional repairs at Lisbon, Portugal, to Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba, Rijeka (Jugolinija). Renamed Partizanka. Will be repaired at Split, Yugoslavia.
- 12 December 1947 sailed Split on first voyage to Australia.
- 14 December called at Valetta, Malta. 25 January 1948 arrived Sydney, Australia.
- 10 March 1948 sailed Split on second voyage to Australia.
- 9 July 1948 sailed Marseilles, France, on first voyage to Brazil.
- 1949 several ocean crossings to Canada and the United States.
- 12 October 1949 gutted by fire after an explosion while repairing at Split. Declared a total loss and scrapped at Split.
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