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Challenger (SP 3630)


Cargo Ship: Built in 1917 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; Acquired by the Navy, 4 October 1918 and commissioned the same day; Decommissioned, 2 May 1919 and transferred to the Shipping Board the same day.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 16,100 t.; Length 410'; Beam 56'; Draft 30'; Speed 11 kts.; Complement unknown;
Armament unknown.


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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships:

Challenger

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Challenger (No. 3630), a cargo ship, was built in 1918 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif., under a Shipping Board contract; transferred to the Navy 4 October 1918; commissioned the same day, Lieutenant Commander G. T. January, USNRF, in command; and reported to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service.

Challenger cleared San Francisco 9 October 1918 for Mejillones and Antofagasta, Chile, where she loaded nitrates. Sailing on to deliver her cargo at Pensacola, Fla., 11 December, Challenger was next ordered to New Orleans to load cotton and steel for the French government. She was transferred to J. H. W. Steele Co. for operation. After a voyage in January and February 1919 carrying cargo to France to supply the Army of Occupation, Challenger returned to Baltimore, Md. She was decommissioned there 2 May 1919, and returned to the Shipping Board the same day.


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