USS Sioux (ID-1766)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Sioux.
USS Sioux (ID-1766) was a cargo ship in the United States Navy.
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United States | |
Name | USS Sioux |
Builder | American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio |
Launched | 1916 |
Acquired | 1 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 1 December 1917 |
Decommissioned | 14 April 1919 |
Fate | Returned to owner, scrapped 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Collier |
Displacement | 4,550 long tons (4,623 t) |
Length | 261 ft (80 m) |
Beam | 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Complement | 60 |
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Sioux was built in 1916 by the American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio, was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 1 December 1917 from the Clyde Steamship Co., New York City, and commissioned the same day as a unit of the Naval Overseas Transportation Service.