USS Oglala

Massachusetts after she was bought and remodeled by the Eastern Steamship Corporation in 1912.
History
United States
NameMassachusetts
NamesakeCommonwealth of Massachusetts
Owner
Port of registryBoston (1914)
Ordered1907
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yard number342
Launched29 January 1907
RefitConverted to passenger service & fuel oil, 1911
HomeportNew London, CT[1]
Identification
FateSold to US Navy, 31 October 1917
General characteristics [1][2]
Tonnage
  • 4,029 GRT (1908)
  • 4,779 GRT (1913)
  • 1,724 NRT (1908)
  • 2,575 NRT (1913)
Length375.0 ft (114.3 m) Registered
Beam52.2 ft (15.9 m)
Depth
  • 31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1908)
  • 30.2 ft (9.2 m) (1913)
  • 31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1914)
Decks2
Crew
  • 60 (1908)
  • 107 (1913)
The US Navy minelayer USS Shawmut (CM-4) operating in the Caribbean in April 1924. To avoid verbal confusion with Chaumont, she was renamed Oglala in January 1928.
United States
Name
  • Massachusetts (1917–1918)
  • Shawmut (1918–1928)
  • Oglala (1928–1965)
Namesake
Acquired31 October 1917
Commissioned
  • 7 December 1917
  • 28 February 1944
Decommissioned11 July 1946
Out of servicelost to enemy action, 7 December 1941
Renamed
  • Shawmut, 7 January 1918
  • Oglala, 1 January 1928
Reclassified
  • Minelayer (CM), 1920
  • Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG), 21 May 1943
Stricken12 July 1946
Identification
Fate
General characteristics
Class and typeAroostook-class minelayer
Tonnage
Displacement3,800 long tons (3,900 t) (1918)[3]
Length
  • 395 ft (120 m) o.a (1918)[3]
  • 375 ft (114 m) p.p.
Beam52 ft 2 in (15.90 m)
Draft
  • 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m)
  • 16 ft (4.9 m) (1921)
Depth of hold31 ft 7 in (9.63 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed20 kn (37 km/h)[3]
Range5,000 nmi (9,300 km)
Capacity110 men
Complement
  • 407
  • 425 (1921)
Armament

USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala, a sub-tribe of the Lakota, residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Massachusetts was built as a fast cargo vessel for the New England Navigation Company by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1907. In 1911 the ship was sold to the Maine Steamship Company and converted to passenger service. The next year Massachusetts was sold to the Eastern Steamship Corporation. The ship then operated in overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between Boston and New York City. After the US entered World War I, Massachusetts and her sister ship Bunker Hill, were among eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage.

  1. ^ a b Bureau of Navigation 1908, p. 252, 64.
  2. ^ Bureau of Navigation 1913, p. 241, 61.
  3. ^ a b c d e Construction & Repair Bureau (Navy) 1918, pp. 454–455, 270–277.