USS Taurus (AF-25)
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.
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“Upper and Lower Kingdom will declare
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than where
great Taurus ploughs his course.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)