 USS West Mahomet (ID-3681) in port, c. November 1918. The ship has a dazzle camouflage scheme which distorts the appearance of her bow.
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| History | |
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| Name | USS West Mahomet (ID-3681) |
| Owner | U.S. Shipping Board |
| Builder | Skinner & Eddy |
| Yard number | 34 (USSB #1187) |
| Laid down | 21 August 1918 |
| Launched | 19 October 1918 |
| Completed | 13 November 1918 |
| Commissioned | 13 November 1918–3 June 1919 |
| In service | 13 November 1918–about 1930 |
| Out of service | ~1930–1938 |
| Stricken | 3 June 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland, 1938 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Design 1013 cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 5,600 gross, 8,800 dwt |
| Displacement | 12,225 tons |
| Length |
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| Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
| Draft | 24 ft 2 in (7.37 m) |
| Depth of hold | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
| Installed power | 1 × Curtis geared turbine |
| Propulsion | Single propeller |
| Speed | 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | None |
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 Board's 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.