USS West Avenal

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USS West Avenal (ID-3871)
West Avenal near the time of her completion in February 1919
History
United States
NameWest Avenal
OwnerUnited States Shipping Board
Builder
Yard number3[2]
Launched13 October 1918[3]
Completed1 February 1919[2]
Acquired1 February 1919[4]
Commissioned1 February 1919[4]
Decommissioned5 April 1919[4]
Identification
Official Number: 217522[1]
FateScrapped, 27 August 1929[1]
General characteristics
TypeCargo ship
Tonnage
Displacement12,200 t[4]
Length
  • 410 ft 5 in (125.10 m) (LPP)[1]
  • 427 ft 0 in (130.15 m) (LOA)[4]
Beam54 ft 0 in (16.46 m)[4]
Draft24 ft 2 in (7.37 m)[5]
Depth of hold29 ft 9 in (9.07 m)[4]
Propulsion1 × steam turbine[1]
Speed10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)[1]
Complement70[4]
ArmamentNone[4]

USS West Avenal (ID-3871) was a

San Francisco, California, and delivered to the US Navy when she was completed in February 1919. After she was commissioned and had taken on a load of flour, West Avenal sailed to Norfolk, Virginia
, where she was decommissioned in early April.

Though little is available regarding West Avenal's civilian career, she is known from contemporary news account to have visited ports in Spain, Italy, France, Brazil and Uruguay in the early 1920s. In January 1920, West Avenal was rammed by a British cargo ship in New York Harbor and was grounded to prevent her sinking. By late 1928, West Avenal had been abandoned by the USSB, and was scrapped in August 1929.

Design and construction

The West ships were

San Francisco, California.[2]

launching
of West Avenal on 13 October 1918

West Avenal (Western Pipe and Steel No. 3)

hold.[4] She displaced 12,200 t,[4] and had a deadweight tonnage of 8,735 DWT.[1]

In common with the first eight ships built by Western Pipe & Steel, West Avenal was powered by a single

Joshua Hendy triple expansion steam engines, and had considerably longer service lives.[7]

Career

West Avenal (ID-3871) was

San Diego for repairs.[8] After getting underway again, she transited the Panama Canal and, cutting short her journey, arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 4 April. There she was decommissioned the next day and returned to the USSB.[4]

West Avenal departed Norfolk on a voyage to

Valencia, Spain. The damage was severe enough that West Avenal's captain ordered her grounded to avoid sinking in New York Harbor.[10] More than two weeks later, The Washington Post printed a photograph of West Avenal, still grounded off the Red Hook flats.[11] Another report in the Times a year later showed her arrival in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 13 August 1920.[12]

In January 1921,

Santos in Brazil; and Montevideo, Uruguay.[13] Another report in The New York Times the following year listed West Avenal's arrival in Genoa, Italy, on 19 January 1921.[14]

West Avenal underwent further repairs in 1921, after which she was laid up by the USSB in the

Baltimore, Maryland for scrapping on 29 August 1929.[1][5]

Notes

  1. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium
    arrived there.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "West Avenal (2217522)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d Colton, Tim. "Western Pipe & Steel Company, San Francisco CA and San Pedro CA". Shipbuilding History. The Colton Company. Archived from the original on 22 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  3. OCLC 2449383
    .
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "West Avenal". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d e Mawdsley, p. 97.
  6. ^ Crowell and Wilson, pp. 358–59.
  7. ^ Mawdsley, pp. 8-10.
  8. ^
    OCLC 8414304. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
    )
  9. ^ "Shipping and mails" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 August 1919. p. 19.
  10. ^ "Ships collide in fog" (PDF). The New York Times. 10 January 1920. p. 19.
  11. ^ "The S.S. West Avenal...". The Washington Post (photo caption). 25 January 1920. p. 55.
  12. ^ "Shipping and mails" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 August 1920. p. 19.
  13. The Atlanta Constitution
    . 5 January 1921. p. 8.
  14. ^ "Shipping and mails" (PDF). The New York Times. 27 January 1921. p. 32.

Bibliography

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