- USS Pequot (1910)
The second USS "Pequot" (ID–2998), built in 1910 by J.C. Tecklenborg A.G., Geestemunde, Germany, was operated as "Ockenfels" by the Deutsche Dampfschifffahrt Ges., Hansa, until interned at New York at the outbreak of
World War I . Seized when the United States entered the war, she was repaired and taken over by the Navy, on bare boat basis, from the Shipping Board,28 October 1918 . Commissioned as "Pequot" the same day. Lt. Comdr. John Decry, USNRF, in command, she served in NOTS as a general cargo carrier on both the Army and Shipping Board accounts. She was struck from the Navy List and returned to the Shipping Board11 July 1919 .pecifications
Str.: dp. 12,500; l. 426’9”; b. 55’2”; dr. 27’; s. 10 k.; cpl. 70; a. 1 5”, 1 3”
External links
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p4/pequot-ii.htm Naval Historical Center page]
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