USS Abarenda (IX-131)
1916 Design 1013 ship
The second USS Abarenda (IX-131) was a storage tanker, one of many miscellaneous-class Navy vessel crewed by the United States Coast Guard during World War II. The ship was built as Acme in 1916 and operated commercially in the Pacific through the war. After the war Acme operated in U.S. waters between Texas and Atlantic coast ports. Early in WW II the tanker was torpedoed with loss of eleven crew. The ship, undergoing repairs, was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) which operated the ship under various charter agreements including bareboat charter to the U.S. Navy which renamed the ship Abarenda designated IX-131. Until February 1946 the tanker fueled ship in the Philippines and was then decommissioned, returned to WSA and laid up in WSA's reserve fleet there until sold for scrapping in January 1948.
Design and construction
Acme was an oil tanker laid down in 1916 by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco for the Standard Transportation Company, Inc., launched 29 April 1916 and delivered for service 22 June 1916. Though naval and other records that may be derivative show the tanker as a United States Shipping Board (established 7 September 1916) vessel of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (established 16 April 1917) Design 1047 the ship was launched before either organization existed. The design of Acme and sister tankers was adopted by the EFC as Design 1047.
Acme was registered with call sign LGCM at 6,895 GRT, 435 ft (132.6 m) length between perpendiculars, 56 ft (17.1 m) beam with crew of 35 and indicated horsepower of 2,600 and home port of New York, New York with owner Standard Transportation Company.
Acme was designed for transporting oil in bulk to Far Eastern ports that had been served by British ships before the outbreak of World War I. She, along with four more ships that were to follow her, had been designated "A" boats by the Marine Transportation Department.
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