SS West Pocasset
West Pocasset was a steam cargo ship built in 1919 by Northwest Steel Company of Portland for the United States Shipping Board as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine. The freighter was operated sparingly on the United States to Europe routes during the first two years of her career before being laid up. The ship was briefly reactivated in 1929 but was again laid up next year and remained idle for the next ten years. In January 1941 the freighter was sold together with four other vessels to the United States Line and was put under operation by its fully owned Panama-registered subsidiary to carry war matériel and supplies between Canada and United Kingdom and renamed Chepo. In early January 1942 while on o
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SS West Pocasset
West Pocasset was a steam cargo ship built in 1919 by Northwest Steel Company of Portland for the United States Shipping Board as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine. The freighter was operated sparingly on the United States to Europe routes during the first two years of her career before being laid up. The ship was briefly reactivated in 1929 but was again laid up next year and remained idle for the next ten years. In January 1941 the freighter was sold together with four other vessels to the United States Line and was put under operation by its fully owned Panama-registered subsidiary to carry war matériel and supplies between Canada and United Kingdom and renamed Chepo. In early January 1942 while on o
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West Pocasset was a steam carg ...... ith the loss of seventeen men.
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commissioning date
1919-10-09
cost ($)
1864045.96
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homeport
laying down
1919-05-05
length (μ)
1.2490704e+2
maiden voyage
1919-11-05
order date
1918-08-14
power type
ship beam (μ)
1.652016e+1
ship launched
1919-08-18
status
Sunk, 14 January 1942
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Ship builder
Ship class
Ship commissioned
1919-10-09
Ship country
Ship fate
Ship homeport
*Portland
*Panama
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Ship identification
*US Official Number 218963
*Call sign LTBM
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*Call sign KLCV
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*Call sign HPSN
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Ship laid down
1919-05-05
Ship launched
1919-08-18
Ship maiden voyage
1919-11-05
Ship name
*West Pocasset
*Chepo
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Ship operator
*Pacific Steamship Co.
*James W. Elwell & Co.
*North Atlantic Transport Co.
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Ship ordered
1918-08-14
Ship original cost
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1864045.96
Ship owner
*USSB
*MARCOM
*United States Line
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Ship power
Ship propulsion
Ship sponsor
Miss Rosemary Mahoney
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Ship tonnage
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Ship yard number
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West Pocasset was a steam carg ...... early January 1942 while on o
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SS West Pocasset
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