USS Hugh L. Scott
Hawkeye State in the 1920s,
which became USS Hugh L. Scott in 1941 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | |
Namesake |
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Operator |
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Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation[1] |
Cost | $6,664,521.20[4] |
Yard number | 4180 |
Launched | 17 April 1920[3] |
Completed | 1921[1] |
Acquired | for the US Army, 31 July 1941 |
Commissioned | into the US Navy, 7 September 1942 |
Out of service | 12 November 1942[3] |
Stricken | 7 December 1942 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk 12 November 1942[3] |
General characteristics | |
Type | type:Design 1029 ship known commercially as "535" Type |
Tonnage | |
Length | |
Beam | 72.2 ft (22.0 m)[1] |
Draft | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Depth | 27.8 ft (8.5 m)[1] |
Propulsion | 4 screws[1] |
Speed | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)[3] |
Sensors and processing systems |
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USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43) was a Hugh L. Scott-class transport ship. She was built in 1921 and spent 20 years in merchant service as a passenger and cargo liner. In July 1941 the ship was delivered to the United States Department of War for Army service as the United States Army Transport Hugh L. Scott operating in the Pacific. In August 1942 the ship was transferred to the United States Navy for conversion to an attack transport, served as a troopship in Operation Torch in November 1942, and was sunk by a U-boat four days later. 59 crewmen and soldiers died during the sinking.
Construction
The vessel was designed to be a troopship,[3] ordered by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, and laid down in 1920 as Berrien. Renamed Hawkeye State the ship was launched on 17 April 1921 and given the United States official number 220987.[3][2] The ship, hull number 4180 and the first of a series, was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1029 and one of eight contracted ships of the design for Bethlehem Shipbuilding of which five were built after cancellations.[2] The Design 1029 ships were first known, along with the slightly smaller Design 1095 or "502s" built only by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, as the "State" ships, as all were given state nicknames until all but four were renamed by May 1922 for United States presidents.[4][2] In later commercial service they were frequently known as the "535s" for their length overall.[2][5]
Hawkeye State was a
Service history
Civilian service
On 5 March 1921 Hawkeye State, the largest combined passenger and cargo vessel of the USSB ever to put into a Pacific port, arrived in San Francisco to begin
Routes with Dollar Lines
Dollar Line put President Pierce on trans-Pacific services between
SS President Hoover
Early on the morning of 11 December 1937, a much larger Dollar Lines ship, the
War service
On 31 July 1941, President Pierce was delivered by American President Lines to the
On 30 April 1942, the 32nd Infantry Division boarded a convoy of seven
On 14 August 1942, she was transferred to the US Navy and converted into an attack transport by Tietjen and Long of Hoboken, New Jersey. On 7 September 1942, she was commissioned as USS Hugh L. Scott, under the command of Captain Harold J. Wright.
Hugh L. Scott took part in
Sunk by U-boat
The Naval Battle of Casablanca delayed the off-loading of Hugh L. Scott's cargo and her departure from the Moroccan coast. On the evening of 11 November, U-173 slipped inside the protective screen and torpedoed transport Joseph Hewes, tanker Winooski and destroyer Hambleton. Hugh L. Scott and the other transports were at battle stations all night and resumed unloading the next day. That afternoon, 12 November, another submarine, U-130, commanded by Ernst Kals, torpedoed Hugh L. Scott,[3] Edward Rutledge, and Tasker H. Bliss.
Hugh L. Scott, hit on the starboard side, burst into flames and foundered, but owing to the availability of landing craft for rescue, casualties were limited to eight officers and 51 men. U-173 was later sunk by destroyers, but U-130 escaped.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1934. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ a b c d e McKellar, Norman L. "Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part V, Contract Steel Ships". Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921. ShipScribe. p. 140a. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Swiggum, S; Kohli, M (28 February 2010). "Ship Descriptions – P–Q". The Ships List. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ^ a b Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (1922). "Cost of U.S.S.B. Vessels". Pacific Marine Review. 19 (July). San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 434. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Nautical Gazette (1921). "First 535's to Reach Pacific Get Warm Welcome". The Nautical Gazette. 100 (March 12, 1921). New York: The Nautical Gazette, Inc.: 339. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ Marine Engineering (1920). "New American Passenger Steamers". Marine Engineering. 25 (April). New York: Aldrich Publishing Company: 260–264. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d Tully, Anthony; Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander (2012). "Stranding of S.S. PRESIDENT HOOVER - December 1937". Rising Storm – The Imperial Japanese Navy and China 1931–1941. Imperial Japanese Navy Page. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ LCCN 47004779. Archived from the original(PDF) on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ "Suburban histories: Yarrabilba". Logan City Council. 1 October 2008. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- ^ "Vicksburg (mascot) B: Vicksburg, Mississippi Aug 1940 D: Southport, QLD, 8 Oct 1944 Camp Cable (memorial) Park, Beaudesert". Archived from the original on 23 December 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
- ^ Bagley, Joseph. "My father's wartime experiences: Francis G. Bagley, Company B, 114th Combat Engineers, 32nd US Infantry Division". Remembering the war in New Guinea. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Priolo, Gary P. "USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43)". Service Ship Photo Archive. Paul R. Yarnall & NavSource Naval History.