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USS ''West Elcasco'' (ID-3661) was a steel-hulled cargo ship which saw service as an auxiliary with the U.S Navy in World War I and as an Army transport in World War II. ''West Elcasco'' was commissioned into the Navy only weeks before the end of World War I, and the war ended before she had time to complete a single Navy mission. She subsequently undertook two relief missions to Europe in the immediate postwar period prior to decommission in 1919. Between the wars she operated as a merchant vessel. The ship was reacquired for U.S. government service in World War II with the Army Transport Command, when she was renamed USAT ''Major General Henry Gibbins''. ''Major General Henry Gibbins'' was torpedoed and sunk off Key West, Florida by ''U-158'' on 23 June 1942. ==Design and construction== ''West Elcasco'' was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 2 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation—the second last in a series of 24 steel-hulled Design #1013 cargo ships built by Skinner & Eddy for the United States Shipping Board's emergency wartime shipbuilding program.〔("General Cargo Ships Built in Pacific Coast Shipyards" ), ''shipbuildinghistory.com''.〕 Nominally a vessel of 8,800 deadweight tons, ''West Elcasco'' is listed in mercantile records as having a deadweight tonnage of 8,568 tons and a gross register tonnage of 5,766.〔Jordan, p. 433.〕 The ship had an overall length of 423 feet 9 inches, a beam of 54 feet and a draft of about 24 feet. ''West Elcasco'' was powered by a steam turbine driving a single screw propeller, delivering a service speed of between 10.5 to 11.25 knots.〔("West Elcasco" ), Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.〕〔("West Elcasco" ), DANFS.〕 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「USS West Elcasco (ID-3661)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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