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Hoven (SP 4341-B)


Tanker: Built in 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Sparrows Point, MD; Acquired by the Navy, 16 May 1919 at Sparrows Point and commissioned Hoven (SP 4341-B) the same day; Decommissioned, 8 September 1919 at New York and returned to the United States Shipping Board; Sold, 1927 and renamed Beacon Hill. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 14,530 t.; Length 453'; Beam 56'; Depth of hold 33' 6"; Draft 26'; Speed 11 kts.; Complement 67; Armament unknown.
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Hoven, a tanker, was built by the Bethlehem Ship Building Co., Sparrows Point, Md.; and commissioned there 16 May 1919, Lt. Comdr. Alexander MacKenzie in command.

After loading fuel oil at Bayonne, N.J., the tanker sailed for Europe on 23 May, reaching Horta, Azores, on 31 May and continuing on to Brest on 5 June. At both ports she refueled American warships, and then returned to New York on 22 June. Hoven sailed to Port Arthur for fuel oil and from 22 July to 9 August transited the Atlantic to Brest. She returned to New York on 31 August and decommissioned there 8 September 1919. Hoven was delivered to the USSB the day she decommissioned. Hoven was sold to Beacon Oil Co., Boston, Mass., in 1927 and renamed Beacon Hill.


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