History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Plymouth |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey |
Laid down | 1915 |
Acquired | 30 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 2 August 1918 |
Decommissioned | 25 February 1919 |
Fate | Scrapped Wilmington, Delaware 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw steamer |
Displacement | 10,750 long tons (10,923 t) |
Length | 395 ft 1 in (120.42 m) |
Beam | 55 ft 2 in (16.81 m) |
Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 85 officers and men |
Armament |
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USS Plymouth (SP-3308), a screw steamer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town on Plymouth Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Boston, founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
Plymouth's keel was laid down in 1915 by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey, was taken over from the Italian-American Steamship Company by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and simultaneously transferred to the United States Navy on 30 July 1918 and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 2 August.