USS W. L. Steed (ID-3449)
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USS W. L. Steed in 1918
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| Name: | USS W. L. Steed |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Launched: | 1918 |
| Completed: | 1918 |
| Acquired: | 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 18 September 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 March 1919 |
| Struck: | 26 March 1919 |
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| Notes: | Operated commercially as SS W. L. Steed 1919-1942 |
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| Type: | Tanker |
| Tonnage: | 6,450 gross tons |
| Displacement: | 13,000 tons |
| Length: | 431 ft 10 in (131.62 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 0 in (17.07 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) mean |
| Propulsion: | Steam |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 96 |
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USS W. L. Steed (ID-3449) was a tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919 and was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine while in commercial service in 1942.
SS W. L. Steed was a steel-hulled tanker built in 1918 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, under a United States Shipping Board contract. The U.S. Navy inspected her on 10 August 1918, assigned Identification Number (Id. No.) 3449 to her, and commissioned her for World War I service as USS W. L. Steed at Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 September 1918, Lieutenant Commander John Charlton, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), W. L. Steed departed Boston on 28 September 1918 and proceeded to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she took on a cargo of oil. She sailed for New York City on 8 October 1918, whence she headed for Nova Scotia in Canada on 17 October 1918. She departed Sydney, Nova Scotia, on 23 October 1918, bound for Devonport, England, but developed a steering gear casualty en route and put into St. John's, Newfoundland, for repairs on 30 October 1918.
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