SS Western Spirit, probably in Portland, Oregon, in July 1918 just after her completion by the Northwest Steel Company. She is painted in pattern camouflage.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Western Spirit |
Builder | Northwest Steel Company, Portland, Oregon |
Launched | 6 May 1918 |
Completed | mid-July 1918 |
Acquired | 19 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 30 July 1918 |
Decommissioned | 17 April 1919 |
Fate | Returned to U.S. Shipping Board 17 April 1919 |
Notes | Abandoned 1933 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 5,730 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 0.5 in (7.328 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 | 98 |
Armament |
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USS Western Spirit (ID-3164) was a cargo ship of the United States Navy that served during World War I and its immediate aftermath.`
Western Spirit was laid down as the steel-hulled, single-screw commercial cargo ship SS Western Spirit by the Northwest Steel Company in Portland, Oregon, under a United States Shipping Board contract. She was launched on 6 May 1918 and completed in mid-July 1918. The Shipping Board transferred her to the U.S. Navy on 19 July 1918 for use during World War I. The Navy assigned her the naval registry identification number 3164 and commissioned her at Portland on 30 July 1918 as USS Western Spirit (ID-3164).[2][3]
Western Spirit was decommissioned and simultaneously transferred back to the U.S. Shipping Board on 17 April 1919.[9][10]
Once again SS Western Spirit, the ship remained in Shipping Board custody until abandoned due to age and deterioration in 1933.[11][12]
Photographs of SS Western Spirit taken ca. mid-July 1918 at Portland, Oregon, apparently sometime just after her completion by the Northwestern Steel Company and before her commissioning into the U.S. Navy on 30 July 1918. She is painted in pattern camouflage: