Torpedoed and sunk off Key West, Florida, 23 June 1942
General characteristics
Type
Design #1013 cargo ship
Tonnage
5,766 gross, 8,568 dwt
Displacement
12,200 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 × steam turbine
Propulsion
Single screw
Speed
11.25 kn (20.84 km/h)
Complement
70 (in Naval service)
Armament
WWI: none
USS West Elcasco (ID-3661) was a steel-hulled cargo ship which saw service as an auxiliary with the U.S. Navy in World War I and as an Army transport in World War II.
West Elcasco was commissioned into the Navy only weeks before the end of World War I, and the war ended before she had time to complete a single Navy mission. She subsequently undertook two relief missions to Europe in the immediate postwar period prior to decommission in 1919. Between the wars she operated as a merchant vessel.
The ship was reacquired for U.S. government service in World War II with the Army Transport Command, when she was renamed USAT Major General Henry Gibbins. Major General Henry Gibbins was torpedoed and sunk off Key West, Florida by German submarine U-158 on 23 June 1942.
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