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SS Jadden

History
Name	SS Jadden
Owner	1919: U.S. Shipping Board 1940: Atlantic Transportation Co.
Route	1920: New York–Hamburg 1922: New York–Pacific and Far East
Laid down	1919
Completed	December 1919
In service	1920–1929?, 1940
Out of service	1929?–1940
Fate	Sunk by, April 1940
General characteristics
Class and type	Design 1079 cargo ship
Installed power	Steam turbine
Propulsion	Single screw
Speed	11-12 knots

SS Jadden was a cargo ship built as part of the United States Shipping Board's attempt to create an independent American merchant marine in the years following World War I.

Jadden was built in 1919 under a wartime contract with the USSB's Emergency Fleet Corporation. Through the 1920s, the ship remained active as a Shipping Board vessel, first in transatlantic and later in transpacific and Far Eastern service.

With the onset of the Great Depression, Jadden was laid up with no work through most of the 1930s. After the outbreak of World War II, she was sold to Canadian interests, renamed J. B. White, and earmarked for convoy service during the Battle of the Atlantic. J. B. White was sunk by a submarine in her first convoy voyage in 1941.

Development, design and construction

During the First World War, the USSB through its subsidiary the Emergency Fleet Corporation signed contracts with shipyards across the United States for the building of hundreds of ships. With the abrupt end to the war in November 1918, the USSB was faced with the decision as to whether or not to cancel these wartime contracts. It eventually decided to honor many of them, believing that the time had come for the United States to establish its own independent merchant marine. Because of this, the USSB would end up financing the construction of more ships in 1919 than it had for the wartime emergency the year previously. Jadden would be one of these ships.

Jadden was laid down in 1919 by the Skinner & Eddy Corporation of Seattle, Washington under an Emergency Fleet Corporation contract. A Design 1079 freighter, she had a deadweight tonnage of 9,600.

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• hamburg ny nov 20

• hamburg ny dec 20

• hamburg may 21

• independent steamship co. singapore, straits times 27 jul 22

• [1] shanghai oct 21

• gibralter aug 22 (also eldara to bordeaux)

• hono (also eldrige japan, silver state)

• gib 22, also w. mahomet batavia

• Jadden to atlantic gulf and oriental, am. pioneer line to far east etc, lots of others ships inc. w mahomet, stanley elkton nile w. hobo

• sandstorm at sea, red sea jul 28

• lots more stuff from oz, '28

• nov 28, loading wool and general cargo, atlantic and australian line

• offered for scrap dec 32

• "Maritime Board Offers 8 Ships Of Laid-Up Fleet", Chicago Tribune, 1940-07-21.</ref> jadeen offered after laid up at n.o.

• "London Is Assured: Wite House Advises That $3,000,000,000 Orders Be Placed", The New York Times, 1940-12-19 (subscription required).</ref> Waterman Steamship Agency, Ltd., bidding on behalf of--Atlantic Transportation Company, Ltd., a Canadian firm, purchased the steamship Jadden, ...