History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS West Coast (ID-3315) |
Builder | |
Yard number | 7[2] |
Laid down | as War Dagger[1] |
Launched | 6 July 1918[1] |
Completed | 9 August 1918[1] |
Acquired | 9 August 1918[3] |
Commissioned | 9 August 1918[3] |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1919[3] |
Stricken | 26 June 1919[3] |
Fate | returned to USSB |
History | |
Name | SS West Coast |
Owner | United States Shipping Board (USSB) |
Acquired | Returned from US Navy, 9 June 1919 |
Identification | US Official number: 217533[1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1930[1] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Design 1013 ship |
Tonnage | 5,689 GRT[1] |
Displacement | 12,200 t[3] |
Length | |
Beam | 54 ft (16.5 m)[3] |
Draft | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) (mean)[3] |
Depth of hold | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m)[3] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h)[1] |
Complement | 99[3] |
Armament | None[3] |
USS West Coast (ID-3315) was a cargo ship for the United States Navy during World War I. The ship was laid down as SS War Dagger but launched in July 1918 as SS West Coast and reverted to that name at the end of her Navy service.
SS West Coast was a steam-powered for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the West boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the World War I war effort. She was the 7th ship built by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Company in Portland, Oregon. She was commissioned into the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) of the United States Navy in August 1918. After two transatlantic roundtrips, she was decommissioned in May 1919 and returned to the USSB.
Little is known of West Coast's subsequent civilian career. She was scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland in the fourth quarter of 1930.
The West ships were cargo ships of similar size and design built by several shipyards on the West Coast of the United States for the USSB for emergency use during the First World War. All were given names that began with the word West, like West Coast,[4] the 7th of some 30 West ships built by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Company of Portland, Oregon.[2] West Coast (Columbia River Shipbuilding yard number 7)[2] was launched on 6 July 1918, and was completed on 9 August 1918.[1]
West Coast was 5,689 gross register tons (GRT), and was 409 feet 9 inches (124.89 m) long (between perpendiculars)[1] and 54 feet (16.5 m) abeam. She had a steel hull that displaced 12,200 t with a mean draught of 24 feet 6 inches (7.47 m).[3] Her hold was 29 feet 9 inches (9.07 m) deep.[3] West Coast's power plant consisted of a single steam turbine driving a single screw propeller which moved the ship at up to 11 knots (20 km/h).[1]
Little is known of West Coast's post-Navy career. After her decommissioning, West Coast was returned to the USSB.[3] Remaining in the custody of the USSB,[3] she was scrapped at Baltimore in the fourth quarter of 1930.[2][1]