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USS Alpaco (1918)

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{{Infobox ship image

Ship image=USS Alpaco.jpg

Ship caption=USS Alpaco in port in late 1918.
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Ship country=United States

1918}}

Ship name=USS Alpaco

Ship namesake=Previous name retained

Ship builder=Hodge Shipbuilding Company, Moss Point, Mississippi

Ship yard number=

Ship laid down=

Ship launched=

Ship sponsor=

Ship completed=1918

Ship acquired=18 November 1918

Ship commissioned=18 November 1918

Ship decommissioned=19 December 1918

Ship struck=20 January 1919

Ship fate=Transferred to United States Shipping Board 19 December 1918; scrapped by mid-1924

Ship notes=Under U.S. Shipping Board control as SS Alpaco 1918–1924
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics

Ship type=Cargo ship

Ship tonnage=2,500 gross tons

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268|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}}

45|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}}

Ship height=

23|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} mean

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Ship propulsion=Steam engine

Ship speed=10 knots

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Ship complement=57

Ship armament=None

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}}

USS Alpaco was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from November to December 1918.

SS Alpaco was built in 1918 as a wooden-hulled commercial cargo ship by the Hodge Shipbuilding Company at Moss Point, Mississippi, for the United States Shipping Board. Upon completion, she was transferred to the U.S. Navy, which took possession of her on 18 November 1918 and commissioned her the same day as USS Alpaco at the Navy Yard Dock in New Orleans, Louisiana, with Lieutenant Commander Nils A. Nelson, USNRF, in command. She was never given a naval registry identification number, but was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service and earmarked for coastwise service.

The Navy conducted sea trials of Alpaco on 3 December 1918 with representatives of Hodge Shipbuilding on board. She was unable to maintain maximum revolutions for her engines, and a fire broke out in a coal bunker that took a little over 45 minutes to extinguish, the firefighters having to rip off the galvanized sheet iron from the engine room bulkhead to enable them to use their hoses to better advantage. Alpaco had to be assisted back into her berth by the tug {{USS|Underwriter|1880|6}}.

Condemned as "unseaworthy" after this fiasco, Alpaco remained pierside at her berth until decommissioned there on 19 December 1918 and simultaneously returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. As SS Alpaco, she remained in the Shipping Board{{'}}s hands until she was scrapped by mid-1924.

References

{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a7/alpaco.htm}}
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Alpaco (1918–1918). Originally, and later, the civilian steamship Alpaco.
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Alpaco

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