SS Carolinian in 1917, with deck gun platforms fitted but still bearing neutrality markings
History
United States
Name
USS Carolinian
Namesake
A native of the Carolinas (previous name retained)
Builder
Furness-Withy Company, West Hartlepool, England
Launched
3 September 1906
Completed
1906
Acquired
5 October 1918
Commissioned
5 October 1918
Decommissioned
22 March 1919
Fate
Transferred to United States Shipping Board 22 March 1919 for return to owner
Notes
Served as commercial cargo ship SS Harley, SS Southerner, and SS Carolinian 1906-1918 and as SS Carolinian from 1919
General characteristics
Type
Cargo ship
Tonnage
4,170 Gross register tons
Beam
50 ft 2 in (15.29 m)
Draft
23 ft 11 in (7.29 m)
Installed power
1,600 indicated horsepower
Propulsion
Steam engine, one shaft
Speed
9 knots
Complement
35
Armament
2 × 4-inch (102-millimeter) guns
USS Carolinian (ID-1445) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
Carolinian was built as a commercial cargo ship in 1906 at West Hartlepool, England, by the Furness-Withy Company. She operated under the names SS Harley and SS Southerner. By the time the United States entered World War I in 1917, she was named SS Carolinian and was the property of the Garland Steamship Company of New York City. For most of the war, she operated under a United States Army charter. The U.S. Navy acquired her for World War I service on 5 October 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1445, and commissioned her the same day as USS Carolinian.
Carolinian operated in European waters, based at Cardiff, Wales, carrying coal from Cardiff and other English ports to France for use by U.S. Army transports coaling at French ports from her commissioning until 8 February 1919.
On 8 February 1919, Carolinian departed for Newport News, Virginia, with a U.S. Army cargo, and, after stopping in the Azores for voyage repairs, arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, on 12 March 1919 to discharge her cargo and start inactivation.
Carolinian was decommissioned on 22 March 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day for return to the Garland Steamship Company.
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north and the other located in the south around Charleston. In 1705 South Carolinian John Lawson purchased land on the Pamlico River and laid out Bath, North...
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coward and a treasonous thug. After his wife's death in 1912, the South Carolinian newspaper The Times and Democrat noted that just hearing the name Mumford...
moderates who might prevent secession in other states. He met with South Carolinian commissioners in an attempt to resolve the situation at Fort Sumter, which...
and many pro-slavery voices had cried for secession. For decades, South Carolinian political leaders had promoted regional passions with threats of nullification...
with the South's cause. On December 9, Buchanan had agreed with South Carolinian congressmen that the military installations in the state would not be...
Throughout the South enslaved men sang "Massa Had a Yaller Gal", but the South Carolinian version "suggests the competition between enslaved and slaveholding men...
join the cabinet, Van Buren appointed Joel Roberts Poinsett, a South Carolinian who had opposed secession during the Nullification Crisis. Van Buren's...
Marion, written by Mason Locke Weems and based on the memoirs of South Carolinian soldier Peter Horry. The New York Times has described Weems as one of...
8, 1993. After a smallpox epidemic killed 3,644 Guamanians in 1856, Carolinians and Japanese were permitted to settle in the Marianas.: 157 After almost...
line with Church St. is The Defenders of Fort Moultrie, honoring South Carolinian soldiers during the Battle of Sullivan's Island. It is often called the...
(2002) – Ten girls developed seizures and other symptoms at a rural North Carolinian high school. Symptoms persisted for five months across various grade levels...
an annexation resolution that was presented in the Senate by a South Carolinian was voted down, while another that had been similarly introduced in the...
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