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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIP TYPES --
WORLD WAR I ERA TANKERS --
with Smokestacks Aft and Two Masts
Fifteen of the U.S. Navy's WWI era tankers had their engines and smokestacks aft and two masts.
This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy tankers with smokestacks aft and two masts, plus a photograph of each ship in this group.
Ships in this group:
FIFTEEN SHIPS:
Click each ship name to access that
ship's complete Online Library entry.
Click the small photographs to prompt a larger view of the same image, and the words "Picture Data" to access the Picture Data Sheet for that image.
THREE SHIPS -- with flush decks: New York SB 468-foot type. These ships were probably near sisters to the 468-foot ship from the same yard on the page for tankers with three masts.
Broad Arrow, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. Broad Arrow, 1917).
7796 Gross Tons; Length 468'; Breadth 62.5'
Edward L. Doheny III, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. E. L. Doheny, Third, 1918).
8118 Gross Tons; Length 468.0'; Breadth 62.5'
Sylvan Arrow, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. Sylvan Arrow, 1917).
7797 Gross Tons; Length 468'; Breadth 62.5'
ONE SHIP -- with flush decks: McDougall-Duluth type
Robert L. Barnes, USN 1918-1941 (ex American S.S. Robert L. Barnes, 1917).
1915 Gross Tons; Length 251.7'; Breadth 43.2'
ONE SHIP -- with raised hull islands forward and amidships: Chicago SB type
Amabala, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. Alabama, 1901).
2621 Gross Tons; Length 294'; Breadth 42.2'
FOUR SHIPS -- with three raised hull islands and no paired kingposts
Gold Shell, USN 1917-1919 (ex American S.S. Gold Shell, 1916).
5614 Gross Tons; Length 411.5'; Breadth 53.3'
Hisko, USN 1917-1919 (ex American S.S. Hisko, 1917).
5665 Gross Tons; Length 401'; Breadth 54'
Sara Thompson, USN 1918-1934 (British built, ex German S.S. Gut Heil, 1888).
2691 Gross Tons; Length 309.4'; Breadth 40.2'
William Rockefeller, USN 1917-1918 (ex American S.S. William Rockefeller, 1916).
7157 Gross Tons; Length 430'; Breadth 58.2'
THREE SHIPS -- with three raised hull islands and one kingpost pair: Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1047. These ships were probably similar to the three 435-foot ships on the page for ships with three masts that were built at the Bethlehem Steel yard at Alameda, California.
Houma, USN 1919-1919 (ex American S.S. Houma, 1919).
7156 Gross Tons; Length 435'; Breadth 56'
No image is available (or known to exist) of USS Houma
Hoven, USN 1919-1919 (ex American S.S. Hoven, 1919).
7156 Gross Tons; Length 435'; Breadth 56'
No image is available (or known to exist) of USS Hoven
Hoxbar, USN 1919-1919 (ex American S.S. Hoxbar, 1919).
7156 Gross Tons; Length 435'; Breadth 56'
ONE SHIP -- with three raised hull islands and one kingpost pair: Built by the Navy
Cuyama, USN 1917-1946 (Built by USN, 1917).
14,500 Tons (displacement); Length 455'; Breadth 56'
NOTE: Three later ships of this class, Brazos (AO-4), Neches (AO-5), and Pecos (AO-6), were completed after World War I. The first two ships of the class, Kanawha (AO-1), and Maumee (AO-2), had four masts and are listed on a separate page.
TWO SHIPS -- of unknown configuration: Baltimore DD 365-foot type. NOTE: The number of masts on these ships has not been confirmed.
Joseph Cudahy, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. Chestnut Hill, 1917).
4935 Gross Tons; Length 365'; Breadth 50.7'
No image is available (or known to exist) of USS Joseph Cudahy
William Isom, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. John M. Connelly, 1917).
4939 Gross Tons; Length 365'; Breadth 50.7'
No image is available (or known to exist) of USS William Isom
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