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West Galeta (ID 3330)

Civilian call sign (1919):
Love - Mike - Nan - Boy

Freighter:

Built in 1918 by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Los Angeles, CA

Launched 4 July 1918

Acquired by the Navy 4 September 1918 and commissioned the same day

Decommissioned 9 May 1919 at New York and returned to the United States Shipping Board

Abandoned in 1933.

Specifications:

Displacement 12,287 t.

Length 423' 9"

Beam 54'

Depth of hold 29' 9"

Draft 24' 2"

Speed 10.5 kts.

Complement 70

Propulsion: Four oil-fired Heine boilers, one 2,500shp Westinghouse steam turbine, one shaft.

Size	Image Description	Source
118k	Underway, probably circa summer 1918, when she was completed U.S. Navy photo NH 65038	Naval Historical Center
101k	c. September 1918 She has her complete wartime rig of two masts without topmasts and a topmast on a kingpost near the smokestack National Archives photo from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst
118k	Pierside on 2 September 1918 by her builder, the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, San Pedro, California National Archives photo from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR William H. Curtis, USNRF	4 September 1918
02	LCDR Charles S. Santina, USNRF	1919

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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