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Katrina Luckenbach (SP 3020)


Cargo Ship: Built in 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA; Acquired by the Navy, 18 May 1918 and commissioned the same day; Decommissioned, 25 November 1919 at New York and returned to her owners. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 16,000 t.; Length 468' 3"; Beam 55' 11"; Draft 30' 6"; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 91; Armament one 5" and one 6-pounder.


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Katrina Luckenbach 154k Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918. The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly (DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively. The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull #267. Most of the equipment on the pier is for her.
USN Photo NH 43022
Naval Historical Center
Katrina Luckenbach 70k Photographed upon completion, circa spring 1918, still wearing her builder's hull number (#267).
USN Photo NH 101797
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Katrina Luckenbach was launched 22 February 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; she was acquired by the Navy from Luckenbach Steamship Co. on a bare-ship basis and commissioned 18 May 1918, Lt. Comdr. Eldon H. Read, USNRF, in command.

Katrina Luckenbach was assigned to NOTS, and departed New York 10 June with a cargo of Army supplies for American forces in France. The cargo ship returned to the States 16 August and, following repairs, was transferred to the Cruiser Transport Force to assist in returning American forces from Europe She sailed from Boston 15 June 1919 with cargo for France. Upon her return to New York, Katrina Luckenbach decommissioned 25 November 1919 and was returned to
her owners.


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