CHARLES A. STAFFORD - stafford.htm

BUILT: 1918	BEAM: 60'	DRAFT: 24'-6"
LENGTH: 443'	CARGO [cu ft]: None	PASS [patients]: 704
PROP: Turbine 2	RADIUS [miles]: 8,000	TONS: 7,587
TYPE:	SPEED [knots]: 16	DEPENDENTS TO JAPAN: ?

Formerly the troopship SIBONEY.

Converted in 1944 to a hospital shiip - CHARLES A. STAFFORD -- in honor of Captain Charles A. Stafford of the Medical Corps, who lost his life in 1942 during the evacuation of Java.