SS West Loquassuck
Launch of SS West Loquassuck, 21 September 1918
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History | |
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Name | SS West Loquassuck |
Owner | U.S. Shipping Board |
Builder | Skinner & Eddy |
Yard number | 32 (USSB #1185) |
Laid down | 20 July 1918 |
Launched | 21 September 1918 |
Acquired | 15 October 1918 |
Commissioned | 15 October 1918 – 17 April 1919 |
In service | 15 October 1918–1930s |
Renamed | SS West Loquasuck (1919) |
Stricken | 17 April 1919 |
Fate | Scrapped at Baltimore, 1936 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Design #1013 cargo ship |
Tonnage | 5,600 gross, 8,800 dwt |
Displacement | 12,225 tons |
Length |
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Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 2 in (7.37 m) |
Depth of hold | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
Installed power | 1 × Curtis geared turbine |
Propulsion | Single propeller |
Speed | 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) |
Complement |
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Armament | none |
SS West Loquassuck was a
USS West Loquassuck undertook several transport missions for the Navy in the immediate postwar period prior to decommission, and subsequently operated as the merchant ship SS West Loquassuck into the 1930s. She was scrapped in Baltimore in 1936.
Design and construction
West Loquassuck was built in
Nominally a vessel of 8,800
Service history
West Loquassuck was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 15 October 1918 at the
After completing her sea trials, West Loquassuck set sail for
From Charleston, West Loquassuck next departed for
Mercantile service
Following her decommission, West Loquassuck was placed into merchant service by the USSB as SS West Loquassuck. In the early 1920s she is known to have been active in
By the late 1920s, West Loquassuck had been placed into Pacific service with the Roosevelt Line.
In the latter half of 1933, West Loquassuck was abandoned by the USSB "due to age and deterioration". She was scrapped in Baltimore in 1936.[7][8]
References
- ^ Original Ship Manifest – The West Loquassuck, ellisislandrecords.org.
- ^ a b Pacific Ports Annual, pp. 64–65.
- ^ General Cargo Ships Built in Pacific Coast Shipyards Archived 22 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine, shipbuildinghistory.com.
- ^ EFC Design 1013: Illustrations, shipscribe.com.
- ^ Hurley, pp. 92–93.
- ^ Jordan, p. 433.
- ^ a b c d e f West Loquassuck, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Naval History and Heritage Command website.
- ^ a b Silverstone, p. 169.
- ^ The Ellis Island Ship Database – West Loquassuck, ellisislandrecords.org.
- The Argus, 20 June 1930.
- ^ Citations include "Steamer's Course Diverted. Captain Seriously Ill", The Argus, 31 January 1930, plus numerous "Shipping" citations from The Argus on the following dates: 7 December 1929, 26 December 1929, 15 January 1930, 28 January 1930, 8 March 1930, 19 June 1930, 20 June 1930 and 7 July 1930.
Bibliography
- Hurley, Edward N. (1920): The New Merchant Marine, pp. 92–93, The Century Co., New York.
- Jordan, Roger H. (2006): The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars And Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships, p. 433, Naval Institute Press, ISBN 978-1-59114-959-0.
- Pacific Ports Inc. (1919): Pacific Ports Annual, Fifth Edition, 1919, pp. 64–65, 402–405, Pacific Ports Inc.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006): The New Navy, 1883–1922, p. 169, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-97871-2.