SS Samoa
 USS Lake Pepin, in 1923 SS Samoa
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Lake Pepin (ID 4215) |
| Namesake | Lake Pepin, Minnesota |
| Builder | McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company |
| Launched | 30 March 1918 |
| Acquired | 4 September 1918 |
| Commissioned | 4 September 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 18 June 1919 |
| Out of service | 18 June 1919 |
| United States | |
| Name | SS Samoa |
| Acquired | 1923 |
| Namesake | Samoa a Polynesian island country |
| Fate | Scrapped 1947 |
| General characteristics as USS Lake Pepin | |
| Displacement | 4,500 tons |
| Length | 261 ft (80 m) |
| Beam | 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m) |
| Propulsion | triple expansion engine steam engine |
| Speed | 9.25 knots |
| Complement | 122 |
| Armament | 2 x 3"/50 caliber guns (for World War I only) |
| Notes | 1919 call sign LMJT |
The SS Samoa was a 1,997-ton
Naval Overseas Transportation Service as a coal carrier traveling between the United Kingdom and France as a United States Navy Temporary auxiliary ship. Her coal service ended in May 1919. In June 1919 she returned to the US with a cargo of World War I vehicles and weapons and unused ammunition. The US Navy decommissioned the Lake Pepin on 18 June 1919.[1] In 1923 she was, renamed Samoa purchased and operated by the Hammond Lumber Company
. In 1936 she was sold to the Wheeler Logging Company of Portland, Oregon. In February of 1941 she was sold to W. A. Schaefer Company.
World War II
After the
Noumea.[9]
Sister ships
USS Lake Pepin / SS Samoa had eight sister ships built as Lake freighters. All nine were built in 1918 by McDougall-Duluth Company of Duluth, Minnesota with a 3,600 ton deadweight. The nine ships were built under United States Shipping Board (USSB) contract # 1320.[10]
- The USS Lakemoor or USS Lake Moor (Hull # 2 ID-215770) was torpedoed and sank on 11 April 1918, on maiden voyage as Navy coal ship (ID 2180), during World War I by the U-boat SM UB-64 in the Irish Sea, off Corsewall Lighthouse, Scotland. Lost were 46 crew members. The ship was named after Lakemoor, Illinois.[11][12]
- The USS Lake Portage (Hull# 4) (216409) was torpedoed and sank on 3 August 1918, during World War I by SM UB-88 just south of Audierne, France. Lost were three crew members and six survived with burns.[13][14]
- The USS Lake Indian (ID-4215-A) (216990), no Navy service, took on water and sank on 25 January 1927, near Sand Key Light, Florida.[15][16]
- The USS Lake Traverse (ID-2782) (Hull #3) (21615), Navy coal ship 1918–1919, In 1925 operated as private ship, took on water due steel plate failure and sank near Tortuga Island, Haiti in the Caribbean on 6 July 1955. Ordered as SS War Centaur, name changed before delivery in April 1918. Named after Lake Traverse.[17][18][19][20]
- SS Lake Markham (Hull # 5 ID 216587, ID-4215-C) ordered as SS Allette, no Navy service, SS Chicago in 1927, scrapped in 1937.[21]
- SS Lake Geneva (Hull # 7 ID 216827), renamed John J. O'Hagan in 1925, Manomet (AG-37) in 1941, Aries (AK-51) for World War II in 1942, John J. O'Hagan in 1946, Adelanto in 1947 and scrapped in 1952.[22]
- SS Lake Helen (Hull # 8 ID 216892) ordered as, before delivery SS Macon. Renamed SS York in 1926, SS Skogak in 1929, SS Kama in 1933, and scrapped in 1970 [23]
- SS Lake Orange (Hull # 10 ID 217151) ordered as, before delivery SS Zenith City. Renamed SS John Gehm in 1923, Menemsha (AG-39) in 1941 for World War II, WAG 274, SS John Gehm in 1946, and scrapped in 1950.[24]
See also
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- SS Dorothy Phillips
- California during World War II
- SS Agwiworld
- SS Barbara Olson
- SS Samoa (1943), a Liberty ship built in 1943 and scrapped in 1971.[25]
References
- ^ "Lake Pepin (ID 4215)". NavSource. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ World War II Magazine, West Coast War Zone, July 1998, by Donald J. Young
- ^ militarymuseum.org SS Samoa
- ^ mobileranger.com The Impact of WWII on the California Coast
- ^ Merchant Vessels of the United States, June 1923, page 121
- ^ The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa, 23 December 1941, Page 11
- ^ The MARINE DIGEST, 12 February 1941, Steel Steam Schooners of Pacific Coast, page 2, By John Lyman with Maritime Research Society of San Diego
- ^ hyperwar, SS Lake Pepin
- ^ Waters, Sydney David (1956) The Royal New Zealand Navy, Page 327-328, Official History.
- ^ shipbuildinghistory.com, McDougall-Duluth Company
- ^ wrecksite.eu SS Lakemoor
- ^ navsource.org, USS Lake Moor
- ^ wrecksite.eu, SS Lake Portage
- ^ US Navy, WW1 loses
- ^ Great Lakers, The USS Lake Indian
- ^ wrecksite.eu Lake Indian
- ^ wrecksite.eu Lake Traverse
- ^ shipscribe.com SS Lake Traverse
- ^ navsource.org, USS Lake Traverse
- ^ nemoha.org Lake Traverse
- ^ nemoha.org Lake Markham
- ^ navsource.org USS Aries (AK-51)
- ^ navsource Lake Helen
- ^ navsource.org USS Menemsha (AG-39)
- ^ mariners.com, S Liberty ship