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  • ... that post-WWI U.S. Navy troopship conversions by W. & A. Fletcher Co. included the ships Liberator; Otsego; Radnor; Rhakotis, an ex-German clandestine supply ship; Bulgaria, which survived a three-week hurricane; Paysandu, later the first Chinese ship to South America; and Santa Olivia, to which a youthful Humphrey Bogart was assigned?

that ships converted to troopships by Hoboken's W. & A. Fletcher Co. in 1919 included Paysandu; Radnor; Rhakotis, Liberator, which found a derelict submarine in mid-ocean; and Santa Olivia, on which a teenage Humphrey Bogart served?