Post War Commercial Service
American President Lines placed SS President Polk in its round-the-world trade until 15 July 1965 when the ship was sold to Ganaderos del Mar, renamed Gaucho Martin Fierro and in 1966, under the same owner again renamed Minotauros. In 1970 the ship was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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