USS Nausett (IX-190)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Nausett.
USS Nausett (IX–190) was a tanker serving as an auxiliary ship in the United States Navy during World War II. Built as W. M. Irish the ship was a commercial tanker until taken by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) during World War II. WSA first allocated the ship to the Army and then as lend lease to the Soviet Union where the ship was renamed Moskva. On return the ship was renamed Nausett and allocated to the Navy which first accepted the vessel and then found it too expensive to make suitable. The ship was returned to WSA, placed in reserve and sold for scrap the next year.
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Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Alameda, California |
Launched | 30 December 1917, as SS W. M. Irish |
Acquired | 29 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 8 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 12 October 1945 |
Renamed | Nausett, 29 October 1944 |
Stricken | 24 October 1945 |
Identification | Official number: 216249 |
Fate | Scrapped 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Oil tanker |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 4,496 long tons (4,568 t) |
Length | 453 ft (138 m) |
Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
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