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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1919}} | Ship name=USS Watonwan | Ship namesake=The Watonwan River in Minnesota (previous name retained) | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, Bristol, Pennsylvania | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1918 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=4 February 1919 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=14 May 1919 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=14 May 1919 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=*Returned to United States Shipping Board 14 May 1919- Laid up 1923
- Abandoned due to age and deterioration 1931
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship type=Design 1025 ship | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=12,200 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 417|ft|9.5|in|m|abbr=on}} | 54|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | 25|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} mean | 32|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=Steam, one screw | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed=8.9 knots | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=70 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*1 × 4-inch (102-millimeter) gun- 1 × 3-inch (76.2 millimeter) gun
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}} | USS Watonwan (ID-4296) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission in 1919. Watonwan was a steel-hulled, single-screw freighter built for the United States Shipping Board in 1918 at Bristol, Pennsylvania, by the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation. In 1919 she was taken over by the U.S. Navy for operation by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS). Assigned Identification Number (Id. No.) 4296, she was placed in commission at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 4 February 1919 with Lieutenant Commander Arnold H. Lewis, USNRF, in command. After loading 7,087 tons of flour, Watonwan departed Philadelphia on 19 February 1919, bound for the British Isles, and arrived in Falmouth, England, on 5 March 1919. After discharging a part of her cargo there, she departed Falmouth on 12 March 1919 and called at Plymouth, England, and Gibraltar before departing Gibraltar on 22 March 1919 for Italy. Reaching Genoa on 26 March 1919, she discharged the last of her cargo of flour there, loaded 1,250 tons of stone ballast, and sailed via Gibraltar for the United States. Watonwan tarried briefly at Norfolk, Virginia, arriving on 26 April 1919 and departing on 27 April 1919, before moving on to New Orleans, Louisiana. She arrived there on 8 May 1919 and was decommissioned on 14 May 1919. She was simultaneously struck from the Navy List and returned to the Shipping Board. Laid up in 1923, Watonwan was eventually abandoned, due to age and deterioration, in 1931. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/watonwan.html}}
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