USS Taurus (AF-25)
| History | |
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| Name | SS San Benito (1921–42) USS Taurus (1942–45) |
| Owner | United Fruit Company Steamship Co (1921–30) Balboa Shipping Co, Inc. |
| Operator | Clark and Service (1921–30)
United Fruit Company (1931–42) United States Navy (1942–45) |
| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast |
| Launched | 12 August 1921 |
| Completed | September 1921 |
| Acquired | 2 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 28 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 11 December 1945 |
| Stricken | 3 January 1946 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 6,600 long tons (6,706 t) full load |
| Length | 325.3 ft (99.2 m) |
| Beam | 46.3 ft (14.1 m) |
| Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Depth | 29.2 ft (8.9 m) |
| Installed power | 2,500 shp |
| Propulsion | BT-H turbo-electric transmission, single screw |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Complement | 106 (1944) |
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USS Taurus (AF-25), formerly SS San Benito, was a refrigerated banana boat of the United Fruit Company that may have been the first merchant ship to be built with turbo-electric transmission. From October 1942 to December 1945 she was a United States Navy stores ship in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II. She was scrapped in 1953.