USS Pequot (ID-2998)
The ship in DDG „Hansa“ livery | |
| History | |
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| Builder | Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde |
| Yard number | 235 |
| Launched | 9 April 1910 |
| Completed | 28 May 1910 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy 28 October 1918 |
| Stricken | from US Navy 11 July 1919 |
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| Captured | 6 April 1917 |
| Fate | scrapped 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 5,621 GRT, 3,542 NRT |
| Displacement | 11,000 tons |
| Length | 421.0 ft (128.3 m) |
| Beam | 55.1 ft (16.8 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft 2 in (7.67 m) |
| Depth | 28.7 ft (8.7 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 517 NHP |
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| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Complement | 70 (in US Navy) |
| Crew | 63 (in merchant service) |
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USS Pequot (ID-2998) was a cargo steamship that was built in 1910 for DDG Hansa of Germany as Ockenfels. She was the second of three DDG Hansa ships to be named after Ockenfels in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
The US Government seized her in 1917, and renamed her Pequot in 1918. She served in the United States Navy for nine months from 1918 to 1919. She was the second ship to be named USS Pequot. The first USS Pequot was a gunboat in the American Civil War.
The United States Shipping Board (USSB) tried to sell Pequot in 1920, but the buyer went into receivership. The USSB succeeded in selling her in 1923, to a US company. DDG Hansa, her original owner, almost immediately chartered her, and then bought her back.
By then DDG Hansa already had a new Ockenfels, so it gave Pequot the name Argenfels. She was the second DDG Hansa ship to be named after Schloss Arenfels in the Rhineland-Palatinate. The first Argenfels had been built in 1901, seized by the French government in 1914, and had been renamed. The second Argenfels was scrapped in Germany in 1932.