![]() USS Keresan ca. late 1918.
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Name | USS Keresan |
Namesake | The Keresan family of the Pueblo people (previous name retained) |
Builder | Pickersgill and Sons, Ltd., Sunderland, England |
Launched | 18 December 1911 |
Completed | 1912 |
Acquired | 18 September 1918 |
Commissioned | 18 September 1918 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1919 |
Fate | Transferred to United States Shipping Board 26 June 1919 for simultaneous return to owner |
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Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 4,507 Gross register tons |
Displacement | 8,700 tons |
Length | 380 ft 6 in (115.98 m) |
Beam | 50 ft 1 in (15.27 m) |
Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) (mean) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 11 knots (maximum) |
Complement | 62 |
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USS Keresan (ID-1806) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.
Keresan was launched in 1912 as the commercial cargo ship SS Electra for an Austro-Hungarian firm, but was sold prior to completion to another Austro-Hungarian company, M. V. Martinolich and Company, and renamed SS Erodiade. At the beginning of World War I in August 1914, Erodiade took refuge at Buenos Aires in neutral Argentina to avoid capture or destruction by Allied naval forces and was laid up there.
The United States seized all Central Powers ships in Western Hemisphere ports upon entering World War I on the Allied side in April 1917, and all Austro-Hungarian ships seized were purchased by American interests. The Kerr Navigation Company of New York City purchased Erodiade and seven other seized Austro-Hungarian cargo ships. Renamed SS Keresan, the ship went into commercial service with Kerr. Later in 1917 or in 1918, the United States Army chartered Keresan for carrying cargo to U.S. Army forces operating in Europe.
The ship returned to commercial service as SS Keresan. She was sold to another American firm and became SS Mount Seward in 1921, then sold again in 1922, to a Hungarian firm that named her SS Debreczen. A British company bought her in 1927 and renamed her SS Fenwell, then sold her in 1928 to another British firm, which named her Chislehurst. Sold to a Shanghai, China-based firm in 1933, she became first SS Yolande B and then SS Yolande before being wrecked near Weihaiwei, China, on 5 March 1938.