| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USSKerwood |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Builder | Richardson, Duck and Company,Thornaby-on-Tees, England |
| Yard number | 616[1] |
| Launched | 28 February 1911[1] |
| Completed | 1911 |
| Acquired | 5 November 1918 |
| Commissioned | 5 November 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 19 March 1919 |
| Fate | Transferred toUnited States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to owner, 19 March 1919 |
| Notes | |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cargo ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 3,651 long tons (3,710 t) |
| Length | 331 ft (101 m) |
| Beam | 48 ft 4 in (14.73 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
| Installed power | steam |
| Propulsion | screw |
| Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 52 |
| Armament | two 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USSKerwood (ID-1489) was acargo ship that served in theUnited States Navy from 1918-1919.
Kerwood was built as the merchant shipSSBudapest atThornaby-on-Tees, England, byRichardson, Duck and Company.[1] She was later renamedSSKerwood. The U.S. Navy acquiredKerwood forWorld War I service on 5 November 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1489, andcommissioned her the same day as USSKerwood.
Assigned to theNaval Overseas Transportation Service,Kerwood commencedcoaling runs fromCardiff, Wales, to French ports. She continued these operations until 28 December 1918, when she arrived atBordeaux, France with 1,000tons ofUnited States Army stores. From Bordeaux, she proceeded to Cardiff before departing for the U.S. on 29 January 1919. She arrived atNorfolk,Virginia on 27 February.
Kerwood wasdecommissioned on 19 March and transferred to theUnited States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to her owner.
Once again SSKerwood, the ship returned to commercial service. On 12 December 1919, with 40 troops on board, she struck anaval mine laid during World War I[2] and sank 20 nmi (37 km) north ofTerschelling Island, in theFrisian Islands on the northern coast of the Netherlands. The transportEdilyn arrived in New York Harbor on 1 January 1920 with 25 members of theKerwood crew aboard.[3]
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