USS Beukelsdijk
The ship as Grängesberg, with her smokestack in Wm. H. Müller & Co colors, between 1903 and 1916 | |
| History | |
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| Netherlands | |
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| Owner |
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| Operator | US Navy (1918–19) |
| Port of registry | Rotterdam |
| Route | 1903: Oxelösund – Rotterdam |
| Builder | Wm Doxford & Sons, Sunderland |
| Yard number | 305 |
| Launched | 14 March 1903 |
| Completed | April 1903 |
| Acquired | by US Government, 20 March 1918 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy, 21 March 1918 |
| Decommissioned | from US Navy, 19 May 1919 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Wrecked 29 January 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | turret deck ship |
| Tonnage | 6,749 GRT, 4,370 NRT, 10,530 DWT |
| Displacement | 13,740 long tons (13,960 t) |
| Length | 440.2 ft (134.2 m) |
| Beam | 62.0 ft (18.9 m) |
| Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) (mean) |
| Depth | 26.0 ft (7.9 m) |
| Depth of hold | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Decks | 1 |
| Installed power | 370 NHP, 2,200 ihp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 to 10+1⁄2 knots (18.5 to 19.4 km/h) |
| Capacity | 488,000 cu ft (13,800 m3) grain, 452,000 cu ft (12,800 m3) bale |
| Complement | in US Navy, 62 |
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USS Beukelsdijk was a Dutch-owned turret deck ship that was built in England in 1903 as Grängesberg. She was renamed Beukelsdijk in 1916 when she changed owners. In 1918 she was requisitioned as USS Beukelsdijk, with the Naval Registry Identification Number ID–3135. She returned to civilian service in 1919, and was wrecked in the Norwegian Sea in 1923.