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Pequot (ID 2998)


Freighter: Built as Okenfels in 1910 by J. C. Tecklenborg A.G., Geestemunde, Germany; Acquired by the Navy 28 October 1918 and commissioned the same day as Pequot (ID 2998); Decommissioned, (date unknown): Struck from the Naval Register 11 July 1919 and returned to the United States Shipping Board. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 12,500 t.; Length 426' 9"; Beam 55' 2"; Draft 27'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 70; Armament one 5" and one 3".


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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: The second Pequot (ID-2998), built in 1910 by J.C. Lecklenborg A.G., Geestemunde, Germany, was operated as Ockenfels by the Deutsche Dampfschifffahrt Ges., Hansa, until interned at New York at the outbreak of World War I. Seized when the United States entered the war, she was repaired and taken over by the Navy, on bare boat basis, from the Shipping Board, 28 October 1918. Commissioned as Pequot the same day. Lt Comdr. John Deery, USNRF, in command, she served in NOTS as a general cargo carrier on both the Army and Shipping Board accounts. She was struck from the Navy List and returned to the Shipping Board 11 July 1919.

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