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SS ''Edenton'' was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board as part of the Boards World War I emergency shipbuilding program. ''Edenton'' briefly served in the U.S. Navy in the immediate postwar period as USS ''Edenton'' (ID-3696), participating in a famine relief mission to Eastern Europe before decommissioning in 1919. Between the wars, the ship was placed into commercial service as SS ''Edenton''. In early 1941, ''Edenton'' was acquired by the War Department for service with the U.S. Army. Considered for transfer to Navy as AK-38 but retained by the Army for use as a transport and renamed USAT ''Irvin L. Hunt''. ''Irvin L. Hunt'' survived the war and after transfer to the Maritime Commission, was again renamed SS ''Edenton''. The ship was scrapped in 1948. ==Construction and design== ''Edenton'' was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 1 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation〔''Pacific Ports Annual'', pp. 64–65.〕—the first in a series of 23 Design 1079 cargo ships built by Skinner & Eddy under the USSBs emergency wartime shipbuilding program.〔("General Cargo Ships Built in Pacific Coast Shipyards" ), ''shipbuildinghistory.com''.〕 The ship was laid down on 3 September, launched 52½ working (66 calendar) days later on 9 November, and delivered on 5 December—a total time under construction of just 70 working (92 calendar) days.〔 As all previous ships built by the company for the USSB had been of the Design 1013 type, the company decided to differentiate the new type by changing its naming system. The 1013s had all been prefixed with the word ''West'', so for the 1079s the names were started with the letter "E" instead. The company was to stick with this nomenclature through the next fourteen ships, but dropped it for the fifteenth ship in the batch, ''Wheatland Montana'', after which names appear to have been assigned randomly.〔 ''Edenton'' herself was named after a city in North Carolina. ''Edenton'' had a designed deadweight tonnage of 9,600〔 and a gross register tonnage of about 7,000 tons.〔("Edenton" ), ''ellisisland.org''.〕 The ship had a length of 423 feet 10 inches (409 feet between perpendiculars),〔 a beam of 54 feet and a draft of 26 feet 9 inches. She was powered by a 2,500 IHP oil-fired steam turbine〔〔McKellar, p. 325.〕 delivering a service speed of 11.5 to 12 knots.〔 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 Edenton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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