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USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72)
USS ''Susan B. Anthony'' (AP-72) was a turbo-electric ocean liner, ''Santa Clara'', of the Grace Steamship Company that was built in 1930. ''Santa Clara'' was turned over to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 28 February 1942 and operated by Grace Lines as agent for WSA as a troop ship making voyages to the South Pacific. The ship was chartered to the Navy on 7 August 1942 for operation as a United States Navy transport ship. The ship was sunk 7 June 1944 off Normandy by a mine while cruising through a swept channel with all 2,689 people aboard being saved.
==Building and civilian service==
The New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey completed the ship in March 1930 and named her the SS ''Santa Clara''.
Santa Clara had six water tube boilers with a combined heating surface of and a working pressure of 300 lbf/in2.〔 ''Santa Clara'' was turbo-electric: her boilers supplied steam to two turbo generators which fed current to electric motors connected to her twin propeller shafts.〔 General Electric made her turbo generators and propulsion motors, and her power output was rated at 2,660 NHP〔
''Santa Clara'' gave more than a decade of civilian service. Notable passengers included Walt Disney and his staff in 1941 had been in Chile researching for their film ''The Three Caballeros''. They left Valparaíso on the ''Santa Clara'' on 4 October and reached New York on 20 October.〔
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