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SS ''West Elcajon'' (often misspelled ''West El Cajon'') was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Boards World War I emergency wartime shipbuilding program. Completed just too late to see service in the war, ''West Elcajon'' was nevertheless commissioned into the U.S. Navy as USS ''West Elcajon'' (ID-3907), participating in one postwar famine relief mission to Eastern Europe before decommissioning in May 1919. After decommission, the ship was laid up for several years until resuming service in 1926 as the merchant ship SS ''West Elcajon'', operating between the United States and the Far East. In 1928, she was purchased by the Matson Line, renamed SS ''Golden Kauri'', and employed in the timber trade between the U.S. and Australia. In late 1928, she became embroiled in a violent Australian industrial dispute. In 1938, the ship was renamed SS ''Waipio'', and in 1946 she was sold to Panamanian interests and renamed SS ''Paralos''. ''Paralos'' was scrapped in Japan in 1954. ==Construction and design== ''West Elcajon'' was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 2 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation〔''Pacific Ports Annual, p. 64-65.〕—the 22nd in a series of 24 Design 1013 cargo ships built by Skinner & Eddy for the USSBs emergency wartime shipbuilding program.〔("General Cargo Ships Built in Pacific Coast Shipyards" ), ''shipbuildinghistory.com''.〕 ''West Elcajon'' had a design deadweight tonnage of 8,800 tons and gross register tonnage of 5,600. She had an overall length of , a beam of and a mean draft of .〔("''West Elcajon''" ), ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'', Naval History and Heritage Command website.〕 The ship was powered by a Curtis geared turbine,〔Silverstone, p. 169.〕 driving a single screw propeller and delivering a speed of 11.5 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 West Elcajon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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