George Washington
1930
(Carlo Marquart CM-60a)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 25,570 tons
- Dimensions: 723 x 72 ft.
- Machinery: Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw = 18.5 knots
- Passengers: 2679 (568 first class, 433 second class, 452 third class, 1226 steerage)
- Builder: Vulkan Shipyards, Stettin, Germany, 1908
- Service: Built for North German Lloyd's Bremerhaven-New York service. Interned at New York, 1914; seized by U.S. government, 1917, becoming a troop transport. Began New York-Bremen sailings for United States Lines, 1921. Laid up, 1932-40. Refitted as a wartime transport and renamed Catlin, but soon after reverted to George Washington. Damaged by New York pier fire, 1947; completely destroyed by a fire at Baltimore in 1951; wreckage scrapped.
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