An Entity of Type: Cargo ship, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

USS Kerwood (ID-1489) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918-1919. Kerwood was built as the merchant ship SS Budapest at Thornaby-on-Tees, England, by Richardson, Duck and Company. She was later renamed SS Kerwood. The U.S. Navy acquired Kerwood for World War I service on 5 November 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1489, and commissioned her the same day as USS Kerwood. Kerwood was decommissioned on 19 March and transferred to the United States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to her owner.

Property Value
dbo:MeanOfTransportation/length
  • 100888.8
dbo:abstract
  • USS Kerwood (ID-1489) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918-1919. Kerwood was built as the merchant ship SS Budapest at Thornaby-on-Tees, England, by Richardson, Duck and Company. She was later renamed SS Kerwood. The U.S. Navy acquired Kerwood for World War I service on 5 November 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1489, and commissioned her the same day as USS Kerwood. Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Kerwood commenced coaling runs from Cardiff, Wales, to French ports. She continued these operations until 28 December 1918, when she arrived at Bordeaux, France with 1,000 tons of United States Army stores. From Bordeaux, she proceeded to Cardiff before departing for the U.S. on 29 January 1919. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on 27 February. Kerwood was decommissioned on 19 March and transferred to the United States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to her owner. Once again SS Kerwood, the ship returned to commercial service. On 12 December 1919, with 40 troops on board, she struck a naval mine laid during World War I and sank 20 nmi (37 km) north of Terschelling Island, in the Frisian Islands on the northern coast of the Netherlands. The transport Edilyn arrived in New York Harbor on 1 January 1920 with 25 members of the Kerwood crew aboard. (en)
dbo:acquirementDate
  • 1918-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbo:builder
dbo:commissioningDate
  • 1918-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbo:decommissioningDate
  • 1919-03-19 (xsd:date)
dbo:length
  • 100.888800 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipBeam
  • 14.630400 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipDraft
  • 6.400800 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipLaunch
  • 1911-02-28 (xsd:date)
dbo:status
  • Transferred toUnited States Shipping Boardfor simultaneous return to owner, 19 March 1919
dbo:topSpeed
  • 18.520000 (xsd:double)
dbo:type
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 21881441 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4538 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1094929929 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:shipAcquired
  • 1918-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipArmament
  • two guns (en)
dbp:shipBuilder
  • Richardson, Duck and Company, Thornaby-on-Tees, England (en)
dbp:shipCommissioned
  • 1918-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipComplement
  • 52 (xsd:integer)
dbp:shipCompleted
  • 1911 (xsd:integer)
dbp:shipCountry
  • United States (en)
dbp:shipDecommissioned
  • 1919-03-19 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipFate
  • 0001-03-19 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:shipLaunched
  • 1911-02-28 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipName
  • USS Kerwood (en)
dbp:shipNamesake
  • Previous name retained (en)
dbp:shipNotes
  • 0001-12-12 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:shipPower
  • steam (en)
dbp:shipPropulsion
  • screw (en)
dbp:shipType
dbp:shipYardNumber
  • 616 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • USS Kerwood (ID-1489) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918-1919. Kerwood was built as the merchant ship SS Budapest at Thornaby-on-Tees, England, by Richardson, Duck and Company. She was later renamed SS Kerwood. The U.S. Navy acquired Kerwood for World War I service on 5 November 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1489, and commissioned her the same day as USS Kerwood. Kerwood was decommissioned on 19 March and transferred to the United States Shipping Board for simultaneous return to her owner. (en)
rdfs:label
  • USS Kerwood (ID-1489) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • USS Kerwood (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License