USS Standard Arrow
SS Standard Arrow in commercial service, probably prior to her U.S. Navy service. | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner | Standard Oil Company |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry | United States |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey |
| Yard number | 167 |
| Launched | 15 May 1916 |
| Completed | August 1916 |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1917, as USS Standard Arrow |
| Decommissioned | 29 January 1919 |
| Renamed | USS Signal, April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 4 April 1944, as USS Signal |
| Decommissioned | c. 20 February 1946 |
| Renamed | Standard Arrow |
| Stricken | 12 March 1946 |
| Fate | Scrapped, April 1947 |
| General characteristics as USS Standard Arrow | |
| Class & type | Arrow-class oil tanker |
| Tonnage | 7,794 GRT |
| Displacement | 18,275 long tons (18,568 t) |
| Length | 485 ft 3 in (147.90 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft 7 in (19.08 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 86 |
| Armament | 2 × 5 in (130 mm) guns |
| General characteristics as USS Signal | |
| Displacement | 15,333 long tons (15,579 t) |
| Length | 485 ft (148 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft 6 in (19.05 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Installed power | 2,000 shp (1,500 kW) |
| Propulsion | Three S. E. Scotch boilers; one vertical quadruple-expansion steam engine, 220 pounds per square inch (1,500 kPa); one shaft |
| Speed | 10.2 knots (18.9 km/h) |
| Complement | 101 or 111 |
| Armament | |
USS Standard Arrow (ID-1532) was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1917 to 1919. She was built as SS Standard Arrow, the first of the Arrow class oil tankers, for the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). In World War II, she was again acquired by the U.S. Navy from Standard Oil and commissioned as USS Signal (IX-142) a station tanker in the Pacific from 1944 to 1946.