SS Western Sea just after launching at the J. F. Duthie and Company shipyard in Seattle on 25 May 1918.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Western Sea |
Owner | USSB |
Builder | J. F. Duthie & Co., Seattle |
Yard number | 12 |
Laid down | 5 January 1918 |
Launched | 25 May 1918 |
Commissioned | 20 June 1918 |
Maiden voyage | 7 July 1918 |
Homeport | Seattle |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1931 |
History | |
United States | |
Name | USS Western Sea |
Operator | U.S. Navy (1918–1919) |
Acquired | 29 June 1918 |
Commissioned | 29 June 1918 |
Decommissioned | 9 May 1919 |
Fate | Returned to owners 9 May 1919 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Design 1013 ship |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 12,200 tons (normal) |
Length | 409 ft 5 in (124.79 m) |
Beam | 54 ft 2 in (16.51 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 1 in (7.34 m) mean |
Depth | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
Installed power | 579 Nhp, 2,500 ihp |
Propulsion | De Laval Steam Turbine Co. steam turbine, double reduction geared to one screw |
Speed | 10+1⁄2 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) |
Complement | 92 |
Western Sea was a steam cargo ship built in 1918 by J. F. Duthie and Company of Seattle for the United States Shipping Board as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine.
Western Sea was laid down as the single-screw commercial cargo ship SS War Emerald by J. F. Duthie and Company in Seattle, Washington, for the United States Shipping Board. Renamed SS Western Sea while under construction, she was launched on 25 May 1918 and completed late in June 1918. Upon her completion, the Shipping Board transferred her immediately to the U.S. Navy for use during World War I. The Navy assigned her the naval registry identification number 3153 and commissioned her at Seattle on 29 June 1918 as USS Western Sea (ID-3153) under the command of Lieutenant Commander C. E. Stewart, USNRF.[1][2]
After just over two months of inactivity, Western Sea was decommissioned at New York on 5 May 1919. She was simultaneously struck from the Navy list and transferred back to the U.S. Shipping Board that day.[3][4]
Once again SS Western Sea, the ship remained under Shipping Board control until scrapped in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1931.[5][6]