S.S. Lake Arthur (American Freighter, 1918), S.S. Lake Weston (American Freighter, 1918), and S.S. Lake Stirling (American Freighter, 1918) -- listed from left to right
History
Name
1918: War Plum[2]
1918: Lake Arthur
1923: Virginia Limited
1930: Valentine
1923: Sesotris
Namesake
1918: Lake Arthur, Louisiana[3]
Owner
1918: USSB
1921: Richmond–New York Steamship Co.
1925: Eastern Steamship Lines
1930: Gordon C. Leitch
1930: Helmsing and Grimm
1931: Schiffahrts A.G. Nord Ost
1932: Albert Klat
1935: Hanseatischen Reederei Emil Offen & Co.[1]
Operator
1918–1919: United States Navy as USS Lake Arthur (ID-2915)[3]
Port of registry
1918: [United States]
1921: New York
1925: Newport News, Virginia
1930: Middlesbrough
1930: Riga
1932: Alexandria
1935: Hamburg[1]
Builder
Detroit Shipbuilding Company
Wyandotte, Michigan[2]
Yard number
217[2]
Launched
16 February 1918[2]
Commissioned
17 September 1918 at Brest, France[3]
Decommissioned
3 April 1919[3]
Fate
Scuttled in the North Sea with cargo of chemical weapons, 17 November 1945
General characteristics
Type
Design 1020 ship[4]
Tonnage
1,948 GRT[3]
Length
261 ft (80 m)[3]
Beam
43 ft 6 in (13.26 m)[3]
Draft
17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)[3]
Propulsion
1 x triple-expansion steam engine[2]
Speed
9 knots (17 km/h)[3]
Complement
52 (as USS Lake Arthur, 1918–19)[3]
Armament
1 x 3 in (7.6 cm) gun (World War I)[3]
SS Lake Arthur (ID-2915) was a Design 1020 cargo ship that served in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) of the United States Navy during World War I. Originally ordered and begun under the name SS War Plum, she was renamed SS Lake Arthur by the United States Shipping Board (USSB). After her naval service, she operated commercially under a variety of names, before being scuttled in the North Sea with a load of chemical weapons in November 1945.
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