[4] Before delivery to the Southern Pacific Company the ship was requisitioned by an order on 3 August 1917 directly from the builder by the USSB Emergency Fleet Corporation with payment of $230,000.

[1] The 19 September 1917 bill of sale specifies that "nothing herein shall be construed to the prejudice of any legal or equitable right or claim" by the "former owner," the Southern Pacific Company.

[5] Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, El Capitan made four transatlantic voyages between 29 March 1918 and 23 November 1918.

[5] El Capitan was decommissioned on 1 February 1919 and transferred to the Shipping Board the same day for return to the Southern Pacific Steamship Company for commercial service.

[14] That convoy was attacked on 9 July 1942 by Ju 88 aircraft with El Capitan suffering ruptured hull with holds #4 and #5 and the engine room flooding.

[14] All personnel, including those rescued, were taken off by HMS Lord Austin, an armed trawler which also tried to scuttle the ship, and made Archangel.