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29-528: USS Shoshone or USNS Shoshone has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship: USS Shoshone (ID-1760) , a troop transport in commission in 1919. USS Shoshone (AKA-65) , an attack cargo ship in commission from 1944 to 1946 USNS Shoshone (T-AO-151) , an oiler in service in the Military Sea Transportation Service and Military Sealift Command from 1957 until

58-594: A class of three single- screw ships for HAPAG: Westerwald , Spreewald , and Frankenwald . In 1911 HAPAG ordered a class of four sister ships for the " –wald " class that were similar, but with a beam about 3.6 feet (1.1 m) wider; a quadruple-expansion engine instead of a triple-expansion engine ; and built in Germany instead of in England. Bremer Vulkan in Bremen-Vegesack built two of

87-623: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles USS Shoshone (ID-1760) USS Shoshone (ID-1760) was a German -built cargo liner that the United States Navy chartered during the First World War. She was launched in 1911 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) as Wasgenwald . The Kerr Steamship Company bought her in 1917 and renamed her Shoshone . In 1919 she spent six months in

116-522: The US Air Force . By the so-called "precise bombing" many buildings and U-boats under construction as well as surrounding private buildings were destroyed or damaged. 116 people were killed and additional 118 injured. Despite the great destruction, production of U-boats could be continued within a few weeks. During the war about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) downstream from the BV-shipyard between

145-513: The United States Navy , in which she made two round trips to and from France to repatriate US troops. American Interlake Line bought her in 1920 and renamed her Manoa . Canada Steamship Lines bought her in 1921. In 1926 the Boston Iron & Metal Company bought her and sold her back to HAPAG, who renamed her Grunewald . She was scrapped in Germany in 1932 or 1933. This was

174-662: The United States Shipping Board on Army account with a civilian crew for the remainder of the war. Another source says the Army used her as a collier . She was defensively armed with one 5-inch/51-caliber gun and one 3-inch/50-caliber gun . On 18 February 1919 Shoshone was commissioned into the US Navy at Shooters Island , New York, as USS Shoshone . Her US Navy code letters were LHWB. On 11 April she moved to Bush Terminal , Brooklyn , where she

203-766: The Atlantic on Wasgenwald . They embarked in Tenerife on 6 August and disembarked in Havana on 20 August. At 11:00 hrs on 1 August 1914, with the First World War imminent, HAPAG announced the suspension of its services. Germany ordered its merchant ships to take refuge in the nearest German or neutral port. Wasgenwald took refuge in Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies , where

232-644: The Bremen suburbs Rekum  [ de ; nds ] and Farge the submarine bunker Valentin was under construction. Here under management of the BV and beginning end of 1945 monthly 15 U-boats should be assembled from prefabricated sections. Those were delivered from the following shipyards Bremer Vulkan AG, Deschimag AG Weser in Bremen, Deschimag Seebeck AG in Bremerhaven and Blohm + Voss in Hamburg . However,

261-678: The Bremer Vulkan bought the Bremer Schiffbaugesellschaft – former H. F. Ulrichs Shipyard which launched the first ship in 1839 - including all its modern shipbuilding facilities. The first director of the Bremer Vulkan became the engineer Victor Nawatzki (1855–1940). In the following years the Bremer Vulkan increased rapidly. By 1908 it covered an area of about 80 acres (32 ha) and a water frontage of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft). Six slips equipped with modern electric travelling cranes were capable of building

290-711: The Bremer Vulkan built warships. All together 11 minesweepers ( M 39 – M 42 and M 54 – M 56 , M 71 – M 74 ) and in cooperation with the Germaniawerft in Kiel some submarine hulls and 6 complete submarines ( U-160 – U-163 ) were built for the Kaiserliche Marine ( Imperial German Navy ). After the war Bremer Vulkan continued its successful development. Different types of ships were built first mainly for German ship owners and with an increasing amount also for foreign ship owners later. An important progress

319-768: The Danish authorities sealed her wireless telegraph apparatus. On 26 September the Norwegian steamship Falk arrived from Brazil to take Wasgenwald ' s cargo, which was bound for Colón, Panama and ports in the Pacific. On 10 October 1914 a hurricane hit the Danish West Indies. It sank or drove ashore several ships in Saint Thomas. Wasgenwald and another HAPAG ship, Calabria , dragged their anchors and were driven ashore. Wasgenwald

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348-760: The German reunification in 1990 the Vulkan Group was enlarged by the Division Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , including the east German shipyards Matthias-Thesen Werft in Wismar and Volkswerft Stralsund in Stralsund . At that time Vulkan Group included all together about 22,000 co-workers in Germany, of that about 18,000 in the shipbuilding divisions. After 1996 bankruptcy because of financial problems and mismanagement, Bremer Vulkan closed

377-740: The UK. In 1926 the Boston Iron and Metal Company of Baltimore , Maryland bought Manoa , and sold her back to HAPAG. A new HAPAG ship called Wasgenwald had been built in 1922, so HAPAG gave Manoa the name of her sister ship Grunewald . HAPAG registered her in Hamburg, and her code letters were RFVW. Deutsche Werft in Hamburg scrapped her in December 1932 or the first quarter of 1933. [REDACTED] Media related to USS Shoshone (ID-1760) at Wikimedia Commons Bremer Vulkan All together Bremer Vulkan built about 1100 ships—including

406-461: The bunker was not finished before the end of the war and no U-boats were ever built there. The building itself still exists today and is partly used as a memorial to the many forced labourers from nearby concentration camps who worked and died there during construction of the bunker. Dr. Robert Kabelac – director of the BV from 1935 to 1960 – managed to avoid the dismantling of the BV after war as this happened to most other German shipyards. The company

435-510: The end of the 1970s the BV became a world leader in container delivered capacity and in innovative container ship design. Beginning in the 1980s for the first time except wartimes of course also naval ships were built. As the general contractor the BV started in cooperation with other German shipbuilding companies the construction of frigates for the German Navy . In the 1980s the BV merged with other German shipbuilding companies and became

464-521: The first of two steamships that HAPAG named Wasgnenwald . The second was completed in 1922, seized and renamed in 1940, and sunk in 1943. She was the also second of three steamships that HAPAG named Grunewald . The first was her sister ship, which the US seized and renamed General G. W. Goethals in 1917. The third was a ship that was built in 1940, and HAPAG bought and renamed in 1951. In 1907 and 1908 Furness, Withy & Co in England built

493-661: The largest shipbuilding company in Germany. The new Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG or the so-called Vulkan Group consisted of the following divisions at that time: Division Shipbuilding , including the seven German shipyards Bremer Vulkan Werft ( Bremen-Vegesack ), Geeste Metallbau GmbH ( Bremen ), Flender Werft ( Lübeck ), Lloyd Werft , Rickmers Lloyd Dockbetrieb GmbH , Schichau Seebeckwerft (all in Bremerhaven) and Neue Jadewerft ( Wilhelmshaven ) Division Naval Shipbuilding Division Industry Division Electronic and Systems Technology Division Services After

522-647: The largest vessels of that time. With an average annual delivery of about 40000 BRT it became the greatest civilian shipbuilding company in the German Empire , followed by Flensburger Schiffbaubetriebe in Flensburg , Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Bremerhaven and Vulcan Stettin in Stettin . The number of co-workers had increased from about 60 at the beginning up to about 3,300 in 1912. During World War I

551-686: The probably the mid-1980s, reclassified as a "transport oiler" and designated "T-AOT-151" during her career [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Shoshone&oldid=1045764894 " Categories : Set index articles on ships United States Navy ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

580-512: The ships of the predecessor Johann Lange Shipyard—of different types. It is remarkable that the Bremer Vulkan, with the exception of both World Wars, only built civilian ships; production of naval ships except during wartime first started in the 1980s. Bremer Vulkan AG was founded 1893 in Vegesack-a suburb of the city of Bremen–by a group of investors and Bremen merchants and by overtaking the 1805 founded Johann Lange Shipyard. Two years later

609-564: The ships: Grunewald and Schwarzwald . Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg built Steigerwald , and Schichau-Werke in Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland) built Wasgenwald . Bremer Vulkan built Wasgenwald as yard number 552. She was launched on 30 December 1911 and completed her in 1912. Her lengths were 367 ft 11 in (112.14 m) overall and 353.1 ft (107.6 m) registered. Her beam

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638-671: Was dry docked . On 1 May she left New York on her first of two round trips to France. She reached Saint-Nazaire on 14 May, embarked members of the American Expeditionary Forces on 15 and 16 May, and left on 17 May. On 1 June she reached Philadelphia and disembarked her troops. On 5 June she left Philadelphia on the second of her two round trips. She reached Saint-Nazaire on 17 June, but waited until 1 July to embark her troops. She left on 2 July, and reached Bush Bluffs Army base in Virginia on 16 July. On 5 August she

667-420: Was 48.7 ft (14.8 m), her depth was 25.0 ft (7.6 m) and her draft was 34 ft 2 in (10.4 m). Her tonnages were 4,708  GRT , 2,880  NRT , and 4,707 tons displacement . She had berths for 50 first class passengers. HAPAG registered Wasgenwald in Hamburg . Her code letters were RSDV. She was equipped with wireless telegraphy , and by 1914 her call sign

696-725: Was DWG. Wasgenwald traded to the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States . On 3 January 1913 she was slightly damaged in port in Newport News, Virginia when a "terrific windstorm" caused a coal barge to crash into her. On 16 May that year she was delayed in Philadelphia by a longshoremen 's strike. In August 1913 the wife and family of former President of Venezuela Cipriano Castro crossed

725-488: Was allowed to resume shipbuilding already in 1949. Production could soon be continued, starting with repair of ships and locomotives and the construction of fishing vessels . Soon later the shipbuilding programme was enlarged and various types of ships were offered to the market as container/multi purpose cargo ships, passenger liners , passenger-cargo vessels, roll-on/roll-off ships, LNG and LPG tankers , supply ships, special-purpose ships, reefer vessels and others. By

754-674: Was decommissioned at Bush Bluffs, and returned to the Kerr Steamship Company. In 1920 the American Interlake Line bought Shoshone and renamed her Manoa . In 1921 Canada Steamship Lines bought her and registered her in London. Her UK official number was 143208, but neither Lloyd's Register nor the Mercantile Navy List records a set of code letters for her when she was registered in

783-543: Was owned via the "Shoshone Navigation Corporation", which was a one-ship company. Her manager was listed as one "EF Geer". In mid-October 1917 the United States Army chartered her. Later that month the 5th Naval District inspected her for possible naval use, and gave her the Naval Registry ID-1760. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships says she was "probably" operated by

812-734: Was refloated by 13 October. In August 1916 Denmark and the United States signed the Treaty of the Danish West Indies , under which the US was to buy the islands. The treaty was ratified in January 1917, and the territory became the United States Virgin Islands on 31 March. Also on 31 March, the Kerr Steamship Company bought Wasgenwald , renamed her Shoshone , and registered her in New York . She

841-598: Was the change of ship propulsion from steam engines to diesel engines . In cooperation and under licence from MAN the Bremer Vulkan started the production of diesel ship-engines. During World War II , 74 different Type VII U-boats were constructed for the Kriegsmarine . The Vulkan facility was several times target of the bombing of Bremen in World War II . The greatest bombing attack happened in March 1943 by

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