Composite and Concrete Ships

United States Shipping Board in WWI

Towards the end of World War I, contracts were placed with four shipyards for 50 composite cargo ships and with six more shipyards for 50 concrete cargo ships and tankers, but most of the contracts were cancelled and only 30 ships were completed. Most of these were scrapped in the 1920s.

USSB # Name Type USSB Design # Builder Location Yard # Delivered Notes
Composite Ships
1 Red Cloud freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Jacksonville FL 99 Aug 1918 later Cortellazo, scrapped 1925
2 Apalachee freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Jacksonville FL 100 Aug 1918 scrapped 1925
3 Botsford freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Jacksonville FL 101 Sep 1918 abandoned at Mallows Bay
4 Kanabec freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Jacksonville FL 102 Dec 1918 burned 1922 and scrapped
5 Buckhannon freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Slidell LA June 1919 later Elena Valdez 1925, scrapped 1929
6 Campello freighter 1009 Merrill-Stevens Slidell LA Aug 1919 burned 1922 and scrapped
63 Oglethorpe freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA May 1919 scrapped 1925
64 Baganito freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA Aug 1919 scrapped 1925
65 Battonville freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA Aug 1919 scrapped 1925
66 Borad freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA Aug 1919 scrapped 1925
67 Tuwetanka freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA Sep 1919 scrapped 1925
68 Quinnesco freighter 1010 Terry SB Co. Savannah GA Sep 1919 scrapped 1925
310 Balino freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 1 Oct 1918 scrapped 1925
311 Morganza freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 2 Dec 1918 scrapped 1925
312 Balosaro freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 3 Jan 1919 scrapped 1925
313 Dalgada freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 4 Feb 1919 scrapped 1925
314 Obak freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 5 Apr 1919 scrapped 1925
315 Oyska freighter 1010 Mobile SB Co. Mobile AL 6 May 1919 scrapped 1925
Concrete Ships
997 Atlantus freighter 1040 Liberty SB Co Wilmington NC 1919 wrecked off Cape May NJ 1926
1189 Polias freighter 1049 Fougner SB Co. Flushing Bay NY 52 1918 wrecked 1920 off Port Clyde ME
1560 Cape Fear freighter 1070 Liberty SB Co. Wilmington NC 1919 collision and sank 1920 off the entrance to Narragansett Bay
1561 Lone Star freighter 1070 Liberty SB Co. Wilmington NC 1920 later Sapona, wrecked 1926 off Bimini
1662 Palo Alto tanker 1100 San Francisco SB Co. Oakland CA 1919 later an abandoned fishing pier in Aptos CA
1663 Peralta tanker 1100 San Francisco SB Co. Oakland CA 1921 later a breakwater in Powell River BC
1707 Dinsmore tanker 1100 Bentley & Sons, A. Jacksonville FL 1920 scrapped 1932
1708 Moffit tanker 1100 Bentley & Sons, A. Jacksonville FL 1920 later oil storage in New Orleans LA
1715 Latham tanker 1100 Ley & Co., Fred T. Mobile AL 2 1919 later oil storage in New Orleans LA
1716 Selma tanker 1100 Ley & Co., Fred T. Mobile AL 1919 abandoned 1922 off Galveston TX
1723 Cuyamaca tanker 1100 Pacific Marine Constr. San Diego CA 1920 scrapped 1926
1724 San Pasqual tanker 1100 Pacific Marine Constr. San Diego CA 1920 later a prison, a hotel in Cuba

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