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SS ''West Mahomet'' was a steel–hulled cargo ship which saw service as an auxiliary with the U.S. Navy in 1918-19. ''West Mahomet'' was built as part of the United States Shipping Boards World War I emergency wartime shipbuilding program. Completed just too late to see service in the war, the ship was nevertheless commissioned into the Navy as USS ''West Mahomet'' (ID-3681), but saw only a handful of voyages on the Navy's behalf—including a postwar famine relief mission to Romania—before being decommissioned in June 1919. The ship was subsequently placed into merchant service as SS ''West Mahomet'', but with the onset of the Great Depression, she was laid up like many other ships of the period for lack of work. The vessel was scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland in 1938. ==Construction and design== ''West Mahomet'' was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 1 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation〔—the 19th 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''.〕 The ship was laid down on 21 August, launched 46½ working (58 calendar) days later on 19 October, and completed on 13 November—a total time under construction of 64 working (82 calendar) days,〔''Pacific Ports Annual'', pp. 64-65.〕 making ''West Mahomet'' one of the fastest-built ships of her time.〔Hurley, p. 93. Note that Hurley does not specifically mention ''West Mahomet'' in his list of fastest-built ships, but at 82 calendar days the vessel would, according to Hurley's list, have been the sixth fastest-built ship of the war.〕 ''West Mahomet'' had a design deadweight tonnage of 8,800 tons and gross register tonnage of 5,600. She had an overall length of 423 feet 9 inches, a beam of 54 feet and a draft of 24 feet 2 inches.〔(West Mahomet ), ''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.〔 Since the ship was completed too late to see wartime service—having been delivered just two days after Armistice Day—she was not provided with any armament.〔 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 Mahomet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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