West Lewark, a 7358 gross ton freighter, was built at San Pedro, California. Originally part of the World War I merchant shipbuilding program, her original construction contract was cancelled in September 1919, and she was completed in 1921 to an enlarged design. In June 1921 she was inspected for possible Navy use and assigned the registry ID # 4490. In about 1923 West Lewark was taken over by the U.S. Army and placed in service as the Army cargo ship Meigs. Following some two decades of Army employment, mainly in the Pacific, the ship was sunk at Darwin, Australia, on 19 February 1942 by a Japanese air attack.
This page features our only view of the freighter West Lewark and of the U.S. Army Transport Meigs.
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Page made 23 August 2004