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Samoset (ID 2000)

Seminole call sign (1948):
William - Item - Nan - Victor
Coastal Passenger Ship:

  • Built in 1897 as Annie L. Vansciver by Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, PA
  • Later named Samoset
  • Acquired by the Navy 20 March 1918 and placed in service as Samoset (ID 2000)
  • Placed out of service 24 March 1922 at New York
  • Sold 16 June 1922 and struck from the Naval Register the same day
  • Registered in 1923 as the passenger vessel Annie L. Vansciver out of Elizabeth City, NC
  • Renamed Everglades
  • Registered in 1927 to the Florida Railroad and Navigation Corp. of Everglades, FL as the passenger vessel City of Punta Gorda
  • Registered in 1933 to the Coast Transportation Co. of New Orleans, LA as the freighter Seminole
  • Registered in 1948 to Leigh G. Hogshire of Norfolk, VA as the freighter Seminole
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 294 t.
    1923 - 194 t.
    1927 - 278 t.
  • Length 107' 6"
    1923 - 127'
    1927 - 103.3'
  • Beam 23'
    1923 - 27'
  • Draft 3' 9"
    1923 - 7.5'
    1927 - 7.6'
  • Speed 7 kts.
  • Complement 10 (1923)
    1927 - 11
  • Propulsion: One 200hp vertical compound steam engine, one shaft.
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    Samoset 66k Photographed prior to her World War I Naval Service, with the ferry steamer Norumbega tied up astern. Both belonged to the Maine Central
    Railroad Company
    U.S. Navy photo NH 102175    		 Naval Historical Center
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: The second Samoset was built during 1905 at Camden, N.J. (Philadelphia, PA not Camden, NJ), as the coastal passenger and freight vessel, Annie L. Vansciver and delivered to the United States Navy on 20 March 1918 by her owner, the Maine Central R. R. Co. Assigned to the 1st Naval District and renamed Samoset, she averaged four ferry trips daily from the Boston Navy Yard to Deer and Bumkin Islands.

    Retained in service after the end of World War I, Samoset was transferred to the New York Navy Yard for local duty within the 3d Naval District. Placed out of service at New York on 24 March 1922, Samoset was sold on 16 June 1922 and struck from the Navy list the same day. Returning to mercantile service under her original name, she disappeared from mercantile registers in 1934.

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