USS Zuiderdijk
The ship as Zuiderdijk | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry | |
| Builder | Wm Gray & Co, West Hartlepool |
| Yard number | 805 |
| Launched | 17 June 1912 |
| Completed | July 1912 |
| Acquired | by US government, 21 March 1918 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy, 23 March 1918 |
| Decommissioned | from US Navy, 21 July 1919 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 5,208 GRT, 3,257 NRT, 8,075 DWT |
| Length |
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| Beam | 53.5 ft (16.3 m) |
| Draught | 24 ft 1 in (7.34 m) |
| Depth | 27.1 ft (8.3 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 602 NHP, 3,600 ihp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Capacity | 384,000 cubic feet (10,874 m3) grain, 356,000 cubic feet (10,081 m3) bale |
| Complement | in US Navy, 124 |
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| Notes | sister ships: Arabistan (1912), Arabistan (1913) |
USS Zuiderdijk was a cargo ship that was built in England in 1912 as Sharistan, but was renamed Zuiderdijk later that year when she changed owners. She was USS Zuiderdijk with the Naval Registry Identification Number ID-2724, from 1918 until 1919. She was renamed Misty Law in 1923, Edera in 1931, Frin in 1956 and Mahfuz later in 1956.
As USS Zuiderdijk she made five return voyages across the North Atlantic and back: three before the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and two afterward. She also made two Caribbean voyages to and from the Panama Canal, one of which took her to Ecuador.
Her total career as a cargo ship lasted 45 years. She passed through Welsh, Dutch, Scots, Italian and Greek management, and was registered in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy and Costa Rica. She survived both World Wars, and she was scrapped in Italy in 1957.