S.S. Haiti

S.S. Haiti was built in 1932 at Newport News for the Columbia Steamship Co. She was originally designed to run between New York and Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Columbia and Cristobal. In 1938 she transferred to the New York to Puerto Rico service and was renamed S.S. Puerto Rico. In 1939, she went to the Ward Line and was renamed S.S. Monterey.

In 1942, she was chartered to the U.S. Army and roughly converted to a troopship in New York. After a long voyage to the Persian Gulf and India, her conversion was completed to carry just over 1,000 troops. She took an active part in the Operation Torch landings in French North Africa and was then used to carry reinforcements to U.S. bases in the West Indies and Brazil. Her war service was finished by repatriating personnel from the Mediterranean.

In 1948, she was sold to Turkish owners and renamed S.S. Adana, but in 1952 her engine room flooded while anchored off Istanbul and was beached in shallow water.

• Length: 117.5 m (385 ft)
• Beam: 17.5 m (57 ft 6 in)
• Draft: 7.2 m (23 ft 8 in)
• Propulsion: Steam turbine engine, single screw
• Speed: 16 knots (18-19 Mph)
• Capacity: 5,236 tons
• Occupancy: 134 1st class passengers, 24 tourist class passengers, and 95 crew members

Margaret Masone (Born: 1908) traveled to Kingston, Jamaica for unknown reasons and was aboard this ship on her return to Brooklyn, New York in July of 1934.