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Northwest Steel was a small shipyard in Portland, Oregon. Little is known of its background or owners, but during World War I the yard built cargo ships for the . Some 37 of the 46 ships ship built at Northwest Steel were the ''West'' boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built for the on the West Coast of the United States as part of the World War I war effort. It was headed by Joseph R. Bowles, who was indicted for bribing a government official in about 1918 and then convicted of contempt of court. He was later described as a "greedy, domineering and difficult person, with no sense of civic responsibility." The first ship built at Northwest Steel was the cargo ship , originally launched on March 31, 1917 as the Cunard Line ship ''Vesterlide'', a British-flagged ship sunk by German submarine ''U-55'' in January 1918. The final ship built was the tanker ''Swiftwind'', completed in June 1921. == Notable ships built at Northwest Steel == * ordered as ''West Minsi'', cancelled, completed privately as ''Centaurus'', renamed 1930 ''Portmar'', bombed, beached and refloated at Darwin, Australia on 19 February 1942, (torpedoed and lost 16 June 1943 ). * (originally ''Vesterlide'') * Torpedoed and sunk 19 August 1942. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northwest Steel was a small shipyard in Portland, Oregon. Little is known of its background or owners, but during World War I the yard built cargo ships for the . Some 37 of the 46 ships ship built at Northwest Steel were the ''West'' boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built for the on the West Coast of the United States as part of the World War I war effort.It was headed by Joseph R. Bowles, who was indicted for bribing a government official in about 1918 and then convicted of contempt of court. He was later described as a "greedy, domineering and difficult person, with no sense of civic responsibility."The first ship built at Northwest Steel was the cargo ship , originally launched on March 31, 1917 as the Cunard Line ship ''Vesterlide'', a British-flagged ship sunk by German submarine ''U-55'' in January 1918. The final ship built was the tanker ''Swiftwind'', completed in June 1921.== Notable ships built at Northwest Steel ==* ordered as ''West Minsi'', cancelled, completed privately as ''Centaurus'', renamed 1930 ''Portmar'', bombed, beached and refloated at Darwin, Australia on 19 February 1942, (torpedoed and lost 16 June 1943 ). * (originally ''Vesterlide'')* Torpedoed and sunk 19 August 1942.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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