USS Eten
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USS Eten (ID-4041) was a troop transport commissioned in 1919 to assist in the post-World War I repatriation of U.S. troops from France.
USS Eten (ID-4041) bringing troops home from France, 1919 | |
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Name | USS Eten (ID-4041) |
Namesake | Puerto Eten, Peru |
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Builder | Blohm & Voss (Steinwerder, Germany) |
Yard number | 193 |
Launched | 11 February 1907 |
Christened | Rhakotis |
Completed | 20 April 1907 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1919 (USN) |
Decommissioned | 19 August 1919 |
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Fate | Broken up at Sakai, Japan, 20 August 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger-cargo ship (1907–17; 1919–34) |
Tonnage | 6,982 GRT; 4,475 net; 8,500 DW |
Length | 435 ft 7 in (132.8 m) |
Beam | 53 ft 2 in (16.2 m) |
Draft | 23 ft 10 in (7.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 28 ft 2 in (8.6 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 2 x 3-cyl. triple expansion; 4 boilers; 3,162 IHP |
Propulsion | Twin screw |
Speed | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Range | 11,000 knots |
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Type | Troop transport (28 May–19 August 1919) |
Displacement | 12,787 tons |
Capacity | 80 officers, 1,761 enlisted |
Complement | 21 officers, 168 enlisted |
Notes | Other characteristics similar to passenger-cargo details above |
Eten was originally SS Rhakotis, a German passenger-cargo steamer built in 1907 for trade between Germany and South America. After the outbreak of World War I, Rhakotis operated briefly as a clandestine supply ship for German naval forces, before being interned in Peru. In 1918, Rhakotis was seized by the Peruvian government and chartered to the United States Shipping Board, who had her converted into a troop transport. Renamed USS Eten, the ship made two trips to France to repatriate U.S. troops between May and July 1919.
After decommissioning, SS Eten operated briefly in the postwar period as a passenger-cargo ship, running between New York and South Africa, before being returned to her owners, the Peruvian government, in 1922. Renamed SS Rimac, the ship operated with the Peruvian Line until 1934, when she was transferred to the Peruvian Navy. In the 1930s, Rimac played a role in the suppression of two attempted coups against the Peruvian government, the first in 1931 and the second—while in use as a presidential transport—in 1939. Rimac was transferred from the Navy to the Peruvian government in 1948 and to the Peruvian Ministry of Marine in 1950. She was broken up at Sakai, Japan in 1959.