USS Western Light (ID-3300), probably photographed while delivering a cargo of hay, flour, and oats at Rotterdam in the Netherlands between 13 and 27 April 1919.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Western Light |
Builder | Northwest Steel Company, Portland, Oregon |
Launched | 27 May 1918 |
Completed | 1918 |
Acquired | 30 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 30 July 1918 |
Decommissioned | 14 May 1919 |
Fate | Returned to U.S. Shipping Board 14 May 1919 |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 5,869 Gross register tons[1] |
Displacement | 12,185 tons |
Length | 423 ft 9 in (129.16 m) |
Beam | 54 ft 0 in (16.46 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 1 in (7.34 m) (mean) |
Depth | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
Propulsion | One 2,500-ihp (1.864-mW) steam engine, one shaft |
Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
Complement | 116 |
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USS Western Light (ID-3300) was a cargo ship of the United States Navy that served during World War I and its immediate aftermath.`
Western Light was laid down as the steel-hulled, single-screw commercial cargo ship SS Western Light by the Northwest Steel Company in Portland, Oregon, under a United States Shipping Board contract. After her completion in 1918, the Shipping Board transferred her to the U.S. Navy at Portland on 30 July 1918 for use during World War I. Assigning her the naval registry identification number 3300, the Navy commissioned her at Portland on 30 July 1918 as USS Western Light (ID-3300).[2][3]
Western Light was decommissioned and simultaneously transferred back to the U.S. Shipping Board on 14 May 1919.[7][8]
Once again SS Western Light, the ship remained in Shipping Board custody until abandoned in 1933. She was scrapped in the United Kingdom in 1938.[9][10]
Photographs of USS Western Light handling cargo from one of her after holds, probably taken between 13 and 27 April 1919 while she was delivering a cargo of hay, flour, and oats at Rotterdam in the Netherlands: