Category:Dilworth (ship, 1919)

USS Clifton 

United States Navy storage tanker
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Instance of	ship
Operator	United States Navy
Manufacturer	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Yard number	5261A
Country of registry	United States of America
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Ship edit

• Type: Tanker, USSB design #1047
• Built by: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, Alameda CA
• Yard No: 5261
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1919.06.30
• Completed: 1919 (some sources say 1920.01)
• Length over all: 435.0 ft
• Beam: 56.1 ft
• GRT: 7045
• DWT: 10671
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History edit

• 1919 Named Dilworth; Flag: United States
  • Official number: 219462, Shipping board #1465, Navy registry ID-4631
  • Call sign: KOVJ
  • Port: Philadelphia, PA; later Wilmington, DE
  • Owner: Pennsylvania Shipping Co, later Paco Tankers, Inc.
  • Manager: Pennsylvania Shipping Co.
• 1942.04.21 Taken over by War Shipping Administration
  • Operator: Keystone Shipping Co.
• 1945.05.31 Renamed Clifton (IX-184)
  • Acquired by U.S. Navy in Brisbane, Australia, commissioned 1945.06.02
• 1946.02.21 Renamed Dilworth
  • Decommissioned; placed in reserve fleet, Mobile, Alabama
  • Owner: War Shipping Administration
• 1947.01.28 Sold to Pinto Island Metals Co. (Mobile, Alabama) for scrapping