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SS ''Dakotan'' was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company that served as a transport ship in the United States Army Transport Service in World War I, and then was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease in World War II before being finally scrapped in 1969. During World War I, she was taken over by the United States Army as USAT ''Dakotan''. Near the end of that war she was transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned as USS ''Dakotan'' (ID-3882). During World War II, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed SS ''Zyrianin'' (or ''Зырянин'' in Cyrillic). ''Dakotan'' was built by the Maryland Steel Company as one of eight sister ships for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, and was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. During World War I, as USAT ''Dakotan'', the ship carried cargo and animals to France. ''Dakotan'' was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the United States entered the war in April 1917. In Navy service, USS ''Dakotan'' carried cargo to France and returned over 8,800 American troops after the Armistice. After her Navy service ended in 1919, she was returned to her original owners and resumed relatively uneventful cargo service over the next twenty years. ''Dakotan'' ran aground off the coast of Mexico in 1923 but was freed and towed to port for repairs. Early in World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and transferred to the Soviet Union under the terms of Lend-Lease in December 1942. Sailing as SS ''Zyrianin'', the ship remained a part of the Soviet merchant fleet into the late 1960s. ==Design and construction== In September 1911, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company placed an order with the Maryland Steel Company of Sparrows Point, Maryland, for four new cargo ships—, ''Dakotan'', , and .〔Maryland Steel had built three ships—, ''Georgian'', and ''Honolulan''—for American-Hawaiian in 1909 in what proved to be a satisfactory arrangement for both companies. See: Cochran and Ginger, p. 358.〕 The contract cost of the ships was set at the construction cost plus an 8% profit for Maryland Steel, but with a maximum cost of $640,000 per ship. The construction was financed by Maryland Steel with a credit plan that called for a 5% down payment in cash with nine monthly installments for the balance. The deal had provisions that allowed some of the nine installments to be converted into longer-term notes or mortgages. The final cost of ''Dakotan'', including financing costs, was $66.00 per deadweight ton, which totaled just under $672,000.〔 ''Dakotan'' (Maryland Steel yard no. 125)〔 was the second ship built under the original contract.〔Further contracts on similar terms were signed in November 1911 and May 1912 to build four additional ships: , , , . See: Cochran and Ginger, p. 358, and Colton.〕 She was launched on 10 August 1912, and delivered to American-Hawaiian in November.〔 ''Dakotan'' was ,〔 and was in length and abeam. She had a deadweight tonnage of and a storage capacity of .〔 A single steam engine with oil-fired boilers driving a single screw propeller provided her power;〔 her speed was .〔 The steamer had accommodations for 18 officers, 40 crewmen, and could carry up to 16 passengers.〔 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「SS Dakotan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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