High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Built by the Oscar Daniels Company, in Tampa, Florida, for the Emergency Fleet Corporation and launched in 1920 as the MS Tampa, she was too late to see service in World War I. Later she was converted to a motor vessel and served the purpose of proving American-made Diesels practical for large seagoing vessels. As the Motor Vessel Tampa, she was well-known in the Orient, making many voyages in round-the-world trade for the American Pioneer Line. During the early part of World War II, she was used to bring vital raw products from South America to East-Coast ports of the United States, running the gauntlet of submarines in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean Sea with little protection.

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