SS West Elcajon

Ships and Boats

SS West Elcajon was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board's World War I emergency shipbuilding program. Commissioned briefly as USS West Elcajon, it made a postwar famine relief mission to Eastern Europe. Returned to merchant service in 1926, it later operated as SS Golden Kauri in the timber trade between the United States and Australia. Renamed SS Waipio and then SS Paralos, it was scrapped in Japan in 1954.

Built: 1918, for the U.S. wartime shipbuilding program
Naval service: Postwar famine relief mission to Eastern Europe
Final fate: Scrapped in Japan in 1954

Sources and credits

Article: SS West Elcajon (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q7394531
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Illustration: By Allan C. Green. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Allan C. Green, Golden Kauri, State Library of Victoria website.
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