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USAT Ourcq

Transport
  • Laid down, circa 1920, under USSB contract (hull 676) as a Hog Island type "B" cargo vessel by American International Shipbuilding Company at Hog Island, PA. for the United States Shipping Board as SS Sisseton
  • Launched, 17 June 1920
  • Delivered to the U.S. Shipping Board in December 1920
  • Transferred to the War Department, 6 January 1921
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service, A.T.S. Atlantic Fleet with homeport at Norfolk, VA.
  • Named USAT Ourcq in honor of the U.S. Army’s participation in the Ourcq campaign in World War I.
  • Laid up, 13 January 1921, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Directed by Executive Order dated 1 July 1922 to be turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board
  • Turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board, 5 January 1923
  • Sold to the American Merchant Line in early 1924, renamed SS American Farmer
  • Sold to the Société Maritime Anversoise, a Belgian shipping firm reflagged Belgian, renamed SS Ville de Liege
  • Final Disposition, sunk, 13 April 1941, by U-52 off the east coast of Greenland
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,590
    Length 390'
    Beam 54'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 11.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 18
    Enlisted 253
    Largest Boom Capacity 5t.
    Cargo Capacity 4,960 DWT
    non-refrigerated, 271, 330 Cu ft
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity NSFO 7,285 bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric-Curtis steam turbine
    three Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers, 215psi 475°
    three turbo-drive 60Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 2,500shp
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    Ourcq 47k Ex-USAT Ourcq underway, as the American Merchant Line's freighter SS American Farmer, date and location unknown.
    Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA.    		 US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4.
    The history for USAT Ourcq is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol 4
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