LAKE PLEASANT (1918, Package Freighter)

Year of Build:

1918

Official Number:

216738

Built at:

Ashtabula, Ohio, United States

Vessel Type:

Package Freighter

Additional vessel types:

Barge

Hull Materials:

Steel

Hull Number:

191

Builder Name:

Great Lakes Engineering Works

Original Owner:

U.S. Shipping Board

Propulsion:

Screw

Length:

253'

Beam:

43'

Depth:

22'

Tonnage (gross):

2221

Tonnage (net):

1344

Final Location:

Bo'ness, Scotland

Date:

1957

How:

Scrapped

Notes:

Stranded south of Bodo, Norway of November 5, 1956

Laid down as WAR SPRITE

1918 Owned U.S. Shipping Board

1928 Owned Ford Motor Co

1929 Converted to barge; lengthened 63'

1943 Re-converted to propeller at Mobile, AL

1944 Owned U.S. War Shipping Administration

1946 Owned Panama interests

1950 Owned Greek interests

1956 Stranded south of Bodo, Norway on November 5

1957 Scrapped in Bo'ness, UK