Name USS Craster Hall Completed May 1909 Commissioned 9 May 1918 Launched 4 February 1909 Weight 9,856 tons | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 25 April 1918 Decommissioned 5 February 1919 Length 120 m | |
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Builder William Hamilton and Company | ||
USS Craster Hall (ID-1486) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
SS Craster Hall was built as a commercial cargo ship at Port Glasgow, Scotland, by William Hamilton and Company for C. G. Dunn and Company, Ltd., of Liverpool, England. Launched on 4 February 1909, she was delivered to C. G. Dunn in May 1909. In 1914, C. G. Dunn sold her to the United States Steel Products Company of New York City. After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the United States Shipping Board took control of Craster Hall. On 25 April 1918, the Shipping Board transferred Craster Hall for World War I service to the U.S. Navy, which assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1486, and commissioned her on 9 May 1918 as USS Craster Hall with Lieutenant Commander H. L. Mortensen, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Craster Hall made three transatlantic voyages to France between 25 May 1918 and 7 January 1919, carrying a total of 28,112 tons of cargo. She transported steel billets, mail, flatcars, United States Army trucks, engines, and airplanes to Bordeaux and Le Verdon-sur-Mer; U.S. Army supplies to Quiberon, St. Nazaire, and Nantes; and 353 horses to Pauillac.
Craster Hall was decommissioned on 5 February 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day for return to the United States Steel Products Company.
The ship reentered commercial service as SS Craster Hall. She was beached and wrecked on 19 June 1927 after colliding with the Imperial Oil tanker SS Reginolite off Talara Point, Peru.