USAT Meigs
SS West Lewark, later USAT Meigs | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Ordered | Before September 1919 |
| Builder | Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co |
| Laid down | 30 July 1920 |
| Launched | 24 February 1921 |
| Completed | June 1921 |
| Acquired | by US Army 1922 |
| Out of service | 19 February 1942 |
| Renamed | 1922 |
| Fate | Sunk by Japanese air attack, 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 7,358 GRT, 5,310 NRT |
| Displacement | 11,358 tons |
| Length | 430.7 ft (131.3 m) |
| Beam | 54.3 ft (16.6 m) |
| Draft | 26.2 ft (8.0 m) |
| Installed power | 422 NHP |
| Propulsion | 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine, single screw |
| Sensors & processing systems | wireless direction finding |
USAT Meigs (sometimes incorrectly called USS Meigs) was a United States Army transport ship that was built in 1921 and sunk in Darwin Harbour in the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on 19 February 1942.