Massachusetts after she was bought and remodeled by the Eastern Steamship Corporation in 1912.
History
United States
Name
Massachusetts
Namesake
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Owner
New England Navigation Company (1907–1911)
Maine Steamship Company (1911–1912)
Eastern Steamship Corporation (1912–1919)
Eastern Steamship Lines (1917)
Port of registry
Boston (1914)
Ordered
1907
Builder
William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yard number
342
Launched
29 January 1907
Refit
Converted to passenger service & fuel oil, 1911
Homeport
New London, CT[1]
Identification
US official number 204012
code letters: KWBM
w/t call sign: KJM (by 1914)
Fate
Sold to US Navy, 31 October 1917
General characteristics [1][2]
Tonnage
4,029 GRT (1908)
4,779 GRT (1913)
1,724 NRT (1908)
2,575 NRT (1913)
Length
375.0 ft (114.3 m) Registered
Beam
52.2 ft (15.9 m)
Depth
31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1908)
30.2 ft (9.2 m) (1913)
31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1914)
Decks
2
Crew
60 (1908)
107 (1913)
The US Navy minelayer USS Shawmut (CM-4) operating in the Caribbean in April 1924. To avoid verbal confusion with Chaumont, she was renamed Oglala in January 1928.
United States
Name
Massachusetts (1917–1918)
Shawmut (1918–1928)
Oglala (1928–1965)
Namesake
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Shawmut Peninsula
Oglala Lakota
Acquired
31 October 1917
Commissioned
7 December 1917
28 February 1944
Decommissioned
11 July 1946
Out of service
lost to enemy action, 7 December 1941
Renamed
Shawmut, 7 January 1918
Oglala, 1 January 1928
Reclassified
Minelayer (CM), 1920
Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG), 21 May 1943
Stricken
12 July 1946
Identification
Hull symbol: ID-1255
Code letters: GRJL
Hull symbol: CM-4
Code letters: NEPJ
Hull symbol: ARG-1
Code letters: NPXU
Fate
Transferred to Maritime Commission (MARCOM), 12 July 1946
Transferred to War Shipping Administration (WSA), March 1947
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala, a sub-tribe of the Lakota, residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Massachusetts was built as a fast cargo vessel for the New England Navigation Company by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1907. In 1911 the ship was sold to the Maine Steamship Company and converted to passenger service. The next year Massachusetts was sold to the Eastern Steamship Corporation. The ship then operated in overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between Boston and New York City. After the US entered World War I, Massachusetts and her sister ship Bunker Hill, were among eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage.
^ abBureau of Navigation 1908, p. 252, 64.
^Bureau of Navigation 1913, p. 241, 61.
^ abcdeConstruction & Repair Bureau (Navy) 1918, pp. 454–455, 270–277.
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