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View from the 1934 Porto Rico Line folder showing the dining room before it was refitted as a mess hall to serve as a troop transport.The crew required to feed all of the troops and crew consisted of 9 cooks, 4, butchers, 2 bakers, 6 pantrymen, 8 messmen , and 8 waiters. All of which perished December 2, 1942, when the Coamo was sunk.
From collection of Bjorn Larsson, www.timetableimages.vom.


~ Larry Paul