USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43)
Hawkeye State in the 1920s,
which became USS Hugh L. Scott in 1941 |
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| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Cost: | $6,664,521.20 |
| Yard number: | 4180 |
| Launched: | 17 April 1920 |
| Completed: | 1921 |
| Acquired: | for the US Army, 31 July 1941 |
| Commissioned: | into the US Navy, 7 September 1942 |
| Out of service: | 12 November 1942 |
| Struck: | 7 December 1942 |
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| Fate: | torpedoed 12 November 1942 |
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| Type: | type:Design 1029 ship known commercially as "535" Type |
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| Beam: | 72.2 ft (22.0 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Depth: | 27.8 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 steam turbines, twin screws |
| Speed: | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
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USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43) was a Hugh L. Scott-class transport ship. She was built in 1921 and spent 20 years in merchant service as a passenger and cargo liner. She was acquired for the United States Navy shortly before the USA entered the Second World War, served as a troopship in Operation Torch in November 1942, and was sunk by a U-boat four days later. 59 crewmen and soldiers died during the sinking.
The vessel was designed to be a troopship, ordered by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, and laid down in 1920. Her intended name was to be Berrien, but when she was launched on 17 April 1921, it was as Hawkeye State, United States official number 220987. The ship, hull number 4180 and the first of a series, was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1029 and one of eight contracted ships of the design for Bethlehem Shipbuilding of which five were built after cancellations. The Design 1029 ships were first known, along with the slightly smaller Design 1095 or "502s" built only by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, as the "State" ships, as all were given state nicknames until all but four were renamed by May 1922 for United States presidents. In later commercial service they were frequently known as the "535s" for their length overall.
Hawkeye State was a turbine steamship, with four steam turbines driving twin propeller shafts by single reduction gearing giving a service speed of 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h).
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