USS West Mahomet (ID-3681) in port, c. November 1918. The ship has a dazzle camouflage scheme which distorts the appearance of her bow.
History
Name
USS West Mahomet (ID-3681)
Owner
U.S. Shipping Board
Builder
Skinner & Eddy
Yard number
34 (USSB #1187)
Laid down
21 August 1918
Launched
19 October 1918
Completed
13 November 1918
Commissioned
13 November 1918–3 June 1919
In service
13 November 1918–about 1930
Out of service
~1930–1938
Stricken
3 June 1919
Fate
Scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland, 1938
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
USN: 76
Merchant: about 30
Armament
None
SS West Mahomet was a steel–hulled cargo ship which saw service as an auxiliary with the U.S. Navy in 1918–19.
West Mahomet was built as part of the United States Shipping Board's World War I emergency wartime shipbuilding program. Completed just too late to see service in the war, the ship was nevertheless commissioned into the Navy as USS West Mahomet (ID-3681), but saw only a handful of voyages on the Navy's behalf—including a postwar famine relief mission to Romania—before being decommissioned in June 1919.
The ship was subsequently placed into merchant service as SS West Mahomet, but with the onset of the Great Depression, she was laid up like many other ships of the period for lack of work. The vessel was scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland in 1938.
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