USS Plymouth (SP-3308)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Plymouth.
USS Plymouth (SP-3308), a screw steamer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town on Plymouth Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Boston, founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
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Name | USS Plymouth |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey |
Laid down | 1915 |
Acquired | 30 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 2 August 1918 |
Decommissioned | 25 February 1919 |
Fate | Scrapped Wilmington, Delaware 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw steamer |
Displacement | 10,750 long tons (10,923 t) |
Length | 395 ft 1 in (120.42 m) |
Beam | 55 ft 2 in (16.81 m) |
Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 85 officers and men |
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Plymouth's keel was laid down in 1915 by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey, was taken over from the Italian-American Steamship Company by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and simultaneously transferred to the United States Navy on 30 July 1918 and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 2 August.