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USS ''Winifred'' (ID-1319) was a cargo ship and tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. ==Construction== ''Winifred'' was laid down as the first steel-hulled, single-screw cargo ship SS ''Winifred'' on 31 January 1898 at Bath, Maine by Bath Iron Works. Launched on 8 July 1898, she was delivered to her managing owners, Hiller, Bull, and Knowlton of New York City, on 1 October 1898. ''Winfred'', the first steel tramp steamer designed and built in the United States, was built to operate for the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. Basic specifications as built are given as length over all, length L.W.L., registered length, beam molded, registered beam, depth molded center, loaded draft with a gross tonnage of 2,456.48.〔〔The 1908 reference states "Gross tonnage" but this is not today's Gross Tonnage standardized in the 1960s. Likely, though not specified, is that era's measure of Gross Register Tonnage by one of several methods.〕 Watertight compartments were formed by six watertight bulkheads running up to the weather deck and two partial transverse bulkheads. Propulsion machinery was a vertical triple expansion engine with cylinders of , and with stroke of delivering about 1,100 horsepower at 100 revolutions turning a four bladed propeller of for a normal cruising speed of over 10 knots.〔 The ship had accommodations for up to eighteen 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「USS Winifred (ID-1319)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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