Building
The vessel was designed to be a troopship, ordered by the USSB from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland and laid down in 1920. Her intended name was to be Berrien but when she was launched on 17 April 1921 it was as Hawkeye State.
Hawkeye State was a turbine steamship, with four steam turbines driving twin propeller shafts by single reduction gearing. These gave her a speed of up to 18 knots (33 km/h) — as fast as many ocean liners of her era.
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A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)