USS Oglala (CM-4)
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USS Oglala in the late 1920s
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| Name: | USS Oglala |
| Namesake: | Oglala Lakota |
| Ordered: | 1903 |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons |
| Laid down: | 1904 |
| Launched: | 1907, as SS Massachusetts |
| Acquired: | 9 November 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 7 December 1917, as USS Massachusetts |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1946 |
| In service: | 1916 |
| Out of service: | 1965 |
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| Struck: | 12 July 1946 |
| Homeport: | Pearl Harbor |
| Honors and awards: |
1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Minelayer |
| Displacement: | 3,746 long tons (3,806 t) |
| Length: | 386 ft 7 in (117.83 m) |
| Beam: | 52 ft 2 in (15.90 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) |
| Propulsion: | Triple Expansion Machinery, Twin Screws, 7,000 hp (5,220 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) |
| Capacity: | 110 men |
| Complement: | 200 |
| Armament: | 300 mines |
| Aircraft carried: | 6 |
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928 was renamed for the Oglala, a sub-tribe of the Lakota, residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
She was originally built as Eastern Steamship Company's SS Massachusetts by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia in 1907 for overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between Boston and New York City. After the United States entered World War I Massachusetts and her sister ship Bunker Hill were among the eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage.
The Navy converted the two passenger steamships at the Boston Navy Yard with decks to improve seaworthiness as mine planters. The ship was commissioned as Massachusetts (ID-1255), on 7 December 1917, and renamed Shawmut on 7 January 1918. She steamed to Britain in June 1918 and spent the rest of World War I helping lay the anti-submarine mine barrage across the North Sea by:
Shawmut laid a total of 2,970 anchored mines while under command of Captain Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr., USN. Captain Cluverius had been a midshipman aboard Maine (ACR-1) at Havana Harbor. In December 1918, Shawmut returned to the United States.
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