USS Zirkel (ID-3407)

History
USS Zirkel in September 1918
United States
Name:	USS Zirkel
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Moore Shipbuilding Company, Oakland, California
Completed:	1918
Acquired:	27 September 1918
Commissioned:	27 September 1918
Decommissioned:	3 May 1919
Fate:	Returned to United States Shipping Board, 3 May 1919; scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland, 1929
Notes:	Built for United States Shipping Board as SS Zirkel in 1918; in Shipping Board custody as SS Zirkel 1919-1929.
General characteristics
Type:	Cargo ship
Tonnage:	6,163 gross tons
Displacement:	12,700 tons
Length:	416 ft 6 in (126.95 m)
Beam:	53 ft 0 in (16.15 m)
Draft:	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) mean
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	62

USS Zirkel (ID-3407) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.

SS Zirkel was built in 1918 at Oakland, California, for the United States Shipping Board by the Moore Shipbuilding Company. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 27 September 1918 for World War I service with the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, assigned her Identification Number (Id. No.) 3407, and commissioned her the same day as USS Zirkel (Id. No. 3407) at San Francisco, California, with Lieutenant Commander David R. Williams, USNRF, in command.

Zirkel got underway for the Gulf of Mexico with a cargo of nitrates. Steaming via the Panama Canal, she arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 30 January 1919 and unloaded her cargo.

Following repairs to her turbines, Zirkel filled her holds with cotton, coffee, and steel and put to sea on 6 February 1919. After a 21-day voyage, she entered port at Liverpool, England, and began unloading her cargo.

Zirkel then took on about 800 tons of iron ore and headed back to the United States on 13 March 1919. On 29 March 1919, the freighter arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, after unloading, began preparations for demobilization.

On 3 May 1919, Zirkel was decommissioned and was returned to the custody of the United States Shipping Board, once again becoming SS Zirkel. The Shipping Board retained her until she was scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy ships: USS Zirkel (Id. No. 3407), 1918-1919

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