USAT Irvin L. Hunt (formerly SS Edenton) stranded in the Makassar Strait, Dutch East Indies, 1941.
History
Name
SS Edenton
Namesake
Edenton, North Carolina
Owner
U.S. Shipping Board
Builder
Skinner & Eddy
Laid down
3 September 1918
Launched
9 November 1918
Acquired
5 December 1918
Commissioned
5 December 1918, – 12 May 1919
In service
5 December 1918–1946?
Renamed
USS Edenton (ID-3696) 1918
Edenton 1919
USAT Irvin L. Hunt 1941
Edenton ~1946
Reclassified
AK-38 (1941)
Fate
Scrapped at Seattle, 1948
General characteristics
Type
Design 1079 cargo ship
Tonnage
6,992 gross, 9,600 dwt
Displacement
13,627 tons
Length
423 ft 10 in (129.18 m)
409 ft (125 m) bp
Beam
54 ft (16 m)
Draft
26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Installed power
1 × 2,500 IHP steam turbine
Propulsion
Single propeller
Speed
11.5 kn (21.3 km/h)
Complement
USN: 70
Peacetime: 30
WWII: unknown
SS Edenton was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board as part of the Board's World War I emergency shipbuilding program.
Edenton briefly served in the U.S. Navy in the immediate postwar period as USS Edenton (ID-3696), participating in a famine relief mission to Eastern Europe before decommissioning in 1919. Between the wars, the ship was placed into commercial service as SS Edenton.
In early 1941, Edenton was acquired by the War Department for service with the U.S. Army. Considered for transfer to Navy as AK-38 but retained by the Army for use as a transport and renamed USAT Irvin L. Hunt. Irvin L. Hunt survived the war and after transfer to the Maritime Commission, was again renamed SS Edenton. The ship was scrapped in 1948.
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was laid." Penelope Barker, organized and wrote the resolution of the Edenton Tea Party (October 1774), an activist throughout the American Revolution...
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