3 was sunk while assisting Bunker Hill when Bunker Hill 's propeller slashed her hull, in the New York City area. Registered crew size went from 38 to 167. The conversion changed registered tonnage from 4,029 GRT, 1,724 NRT to 4,779 GRT, 2,575 NRT and depth of hold from 31.6 ft (9.6 m) to 30.2 ft (9.2 m). īunker Hill and Massachusetts underwent conversion in 1911 from primarily freight to passenger service. Official Number 204264, signal KWDT and home port of New London, Connecticut. The proposed name Commonwealth had been changed to Bunker Hill at the request of Boston's mayor whose daughter christened the ship. īunker Hill was laid down as hull number 343 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched 26 March 1907.

Massachusetts and Bunker Hill had reciprocating engines driving twin screws while the later Old Colony, otherwise identical, was designed with Parsons turbines driving triple screws. The second deck had officers quarters and a few passenger staterooms with more officers quarters on the upper deck. The main deck, with the exception of machinery was designed for 1,500 tons of cargo.

The three vessels were designed by the Quintard Iron Works Company of New York with heavy construction for offshore operation and characteristics necessary for inshore operation. Three new ships for the New England Navigation Company, controlled by the New Haven railroad interests, were designed to compete with the Metropolitan Line vessels Yale and Harvard using the outside, offshore passage yet be capable of using the inside passage through sounds. Old Colony was used as a district scout until sent across the Atlantic and turned over to the British in 1919. Bunker Hill and Massachusetts were converted to minelayers at the Boston Navy Yard. They were among the eight ships acquired by the U.S. Bunker Hill was one of three sister ships, the others being Massachusetts and Old Colony, delivered as passenger/cargo ships by William Cramp & Sons in 1907. Bunker Hill was built in 1907 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for passenger service between Boston and New York City. USS Aroostook (ID-1256/CM-3/AK-44) was the Eastern Steamship Company's Bunker Hill converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage.

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