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Lake Pewaukee (ID 2906)



Civilian call sign (1919):
Love - King - Pup - Quack
Freighter:

  • Built in 1918 as War Sentry by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI
  • Renamed Lake Pewaukee prior to completion
  • Launched 25 February 1918
  • Acquired by the Navy 7 September 1918 at Brest, France and commissioned USS Lake Pewaukee (ID 2906) the same day
  • Decommissioned 22 March 1919 at New York and returned to the United States Shipping Board
  • Sold for scrap in 1927 to the Ford Motor Co., River Rouge, MI.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 4,750 t.
  • Length 261'
  • Beam 43' 6"
  • Draft 19' 8"
  • Speed 10.3 kts.
  • Complement 52
  • Armament: One 3"/50 mount
  • Propulsion: Two single ended boilers, one 1,250ihp vertical triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Lake Pewaukee 79k Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    Lake Pewaukee 100k In port wearing pattern camouflage paint. The photo may have been taken when she was inspected by the Ninth Naval District on 1 May 1918, a day after being completed and probably near her builder's yard at Manitowoc, Wisconsin
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 105215    		 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Thomas Cartwright, USNRF7 September 1918
    02LT Frank C. Schweibens, USNRF1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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