SS Golden Kauri (formerly West Elcajon) underway, date unknown
History
Name
SS West Elcajon
Operator
1919: U.S. Navy
1919: U.S. Shipping Board
1926: Swayne & Hoyt
1928: Oceanic & Oriental
1938: Matson Line
1946: Paralos
Builder
Skinner & Eddy
Yard number
37 (USSB #1926)
Launched
7 December 1918
Christened
SS West Elcajon
Completed
December 1918
Commissioned
18 Jan 1919–26 May 1919
Renamed
1919: USS West Elcajon (ID-3907)
1919: West Elcajon
1928: Golden Kauri
1938: Waipio
1946: Paralos
Fate
Scrapped 1954
General characteristics
Type
Design 1013 cargo ship
Tonnage
5,600 gross, 8,800 dwt
Displacement
12,225 tons
Length
423 ft 9 in (129.16 m)
410 ft 5 in (125.10 m) bp
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
WWI (USN): 70
Merchant: about 30
SS West Elcajon (often misspelled West El Cajon) was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board's World War I emergency wartime shipbuilding program.
Completed just too late to see service in the war, West Elcajon was nevertheless commissioned into the U.S. Navy as USS West Elcajon (ID-3907), participating in one postwar famine relief mission to Eastern Europe before decommissioning in May 1919.
After decommission, the ship was laid up for several years until resuming service in 1926 as the merchant ship SS West Elcajon, operating between the United States and the Far East. In 1928, she was purchased by the Matson Line, renamed SS Golden Kauri, and employed in the timber trade between the U.S. and Australia. In late 1928, she became embroiled in a violent Australian industrial dispute.
In 1938, the ship was renamed SS Waipio, and in 1946 she was sold to Panamanian interests and renamed SS Paralos. Paralos was scrapped in Japan in 1954.
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