USS Oglala

Massachusetts after she was bought and remodeled by the Eastern Steamship Corporation in 1912.
History
United States
Name	Massachusetts
Namesake	Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Owner	New England Navigation Company (1907–1911) Maine Steamship Company (1911–1912) Eastern Steamship Corporation (1912–1919) Eastern Steamship Lines (1917)
Port of registry	Boston (1914)
Ordered	1907
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yard number	342
Launched	29 January 1907
Refit	Converted to passenger service & fuel oil, 1911
Homeport	New London, CT[1]
Identification	US official number 204012 code letters: KWBM w/t call sign: KJM (by 1914)
Fate	Sold to US Navy, 31 October 1917
General characteristics [1][2]
Tonnage	4,029 GRT (1908) 4,779 GRT (1913) 1,724 NRT (1908) 2,575 NRT (1913)
Length	375.0 ft (114.3 m) Registered
Beam	52.2 ft (15.9 m)
Depth	31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1908) 30.2 ft (9.2 m) (1913) 31.6 ft (9.6 m) (1914)
Decks	2
Crew	60 (1908) 107 (1913)
The US Navy minelayer USS Shawmut (CM-4) operating in the Caribbean in April 1924. To avoid verbal confusion with Chaumont, she was renamed Oglala in January 1928.
United States
Name	Massachusetts (1917–1918) Shawmut (1918–1928) Oglala (1928–1965)
Namesake	Commonwealth of Massachusetts Shawmut Peninsula Oglala Lakota
Acquired	31 October 1917
Commissioned	7 December 1917 28 February 1944
Decommissioned	11 July 1946
Out of service	lost to enemy action, 7 December 1941
Renamed	Shawmut, 7 January 1918 Oglala, 1 January 1928
Reclassified	Minelayer (CM), 1920 Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG), 21 May 1943
Stricken	12 July 1946
Identification	Hull symbol: ID-1255 Code letters: GRJL Hull symbol: CM-4 Code letters: NEPJ Hull symbol: ARG-1 Code letters: NPXU
Fate	Transferred to Maritime Commission (MARCOM), 12 July 1946 Transferred to War Shipping Administration (WSA), March 1947 Sold for scrap, November 1965
General characteristics
Class and type	Aroostook-class minelayer
Tonnage	4,779 GRT (1918)[3] 2,575 NRT (1918)[3]
Displacement	3,800 long tons (3,900 t) (1918)[3]
Length	395 ft (120 m) o.a (1918)[3] 375 ft (114 m) p.p.
Beam	52 ft 2 in (15.90 m)
Draft	18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) 16 ft (4.9 m) (1921)
Depth of hold	31 ft 7 in (9.63 m)
Installed power	3 × White-Forster 180 psi (1,200 kPa) saturated steam boilers 8 × single ended cylindrical boilers (1921) 7,000 ihp (5,200 kW) 337 NHP
Propulsion	2 × vertical triple expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	20 kn (37 km/h)[3]
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km)
Capacity	110 men
Complement	407 425 (1921)
Armament	1921 1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose (DP) gun 2 × machine guns 1944 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/38 caliber DP gun 4 × 3-in/50 caliber DP guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns

USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala, a sub-tribe of the Lakota, residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Massachusetts was built as a fast cargo vessel for the New England Navigation Company by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1907. In 1911 the ship was sold to the Maine Steamship Company and converted to passenger service. The next year Massachusetts was sold to the Eastern Steamship Corporation. The ship then operated in overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between Boston and New York City. After the US entered World War I, Massachusetts and her sister ship Bunker Hill, were among eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage.