Eight of the U.S. Navy's WWI era cargo ships had one smokestack and three or four single masts. Deck line features in these ships varied, and some of the ships had kingpost pairs in addition to their masts.
To facilitate identification, these vessels have been placed in five sub-groups, some containing ships of essentially identical design ("sister ships"), while others consist of quite different designs. The latter are further subdivided as to whether they were built in the United States or abroad.
This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy cargo ships with one smokestack and three or four single masts, plus a photograph of each ship in this group.
EIGHT SHIPS with ONE SMOKESTACK (Funnel) and THREE or FOUR SINGLE MASTS, subdivided as shown below:
Click each ship name to access that ship's complete Online Library entry.
Click the small photographs to prompt a larger view of the same image, and the words "Picture Data" to access the Picture Data Sheet for that image.
ONE SHIP -- Three masts: Foreign built
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TWO SHIPS -- Four masts: Foreign built
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ONE SHIP -- Four masts: Sparrows Point 492-foot type. Later served as a transport.
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ONE SHIP -- Four masts: Luckenbach 425-foot type built by Newport News. Later served as a transport.
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THREE SHIPS -- Four masts: Precursors to Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1044, rigged as lumber schooners.
NOTE: these ships' forward and after masts were stepped quite close to their bows and sterns.
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NOTES:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 23 December 2007
Edited and reposted 22 September 2009