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{{short description|Cargo ship of the United States Navy}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''Keresan''
|Ship namesake=The [[Keresan languages|Keresan]] family of the [[Puebloan peoples|Pueblo]] people (previous name retained)
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|Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Shipping Board]] 26 June 1919 for simultaneous return to owner
|Ship notes=*In commercial service as SS ''Eriodiade'' 1912-1914, as SS ''Keresan'' 1919-1921, as SS ''Mount Seward'' 1921-1922, as SS ''Debreczen'' 1922-1927, as SS ''Fenwell'' 1927-1928, as SS ''Chislehurst'' 1928-1933, and as ''Yolande B'' and SS ''Yolande'' 1933-1938
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|Ship tonnage=4,507 [[Gross register ton]]s
|Ship displacement=8,700 tons
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'''USS ''Keresan'' (ID-1806)''' was a [[United States Navy]] [[cargo ship]] in commission from 1918 to 1919.
==Construction and early career==
''Keresan'' was launched in 1912 as the commercial cargo ship SS ''Electra'' for an [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] firm, but was sold prior to completion to another Austro-Hungarian company, [[M. V. Martinolich and Company]], and renamed SS ''Erodiade''. At the beginning of [[World War I]] in August 1914, ''Erodiade'' took refuge at [[Buenos Aires]] in [[Neutral country|neutral]] [[Argentina]] to avoid capture or destruction by [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] naval forces and was laid up there.
The [[United States]] seized all [[Central Powers]] ships in [[Western Hemisphere]] ports upon entering World War I on the Allied side in April 1917, and all Austro-Hungarian ships seized were purchased by American interests. The [[Kerr Navigation Company]] of [[New York City]] purchased ''Erodiade'' and seven other seized Austro-Hungarian cargo ships. Renamed SS ''Keresan'', the ship went into commercial service with Kerr. Later in 1917 or in 1918, the [[United States Army]] chartered ''Keresan'' for carrying cargo to U.S. Army forces operating in [[Europe]].
==United States Navy service==
The U.S. Navy took control of ''Keresan'' on 18 September 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1806, and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] her the same day as USS ''Keresan''.
Assigned to the [[Naval Overseas Transportation Service]], ''Keresan'' departed [[New York City]] on 1 October 1918 with a [[cargo]] of [[ammunition]] for American forces in Europe. Following the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|Armistice]] with [[Germany]] of 11 November 1918, ''Keresan'' returned to the United States in [[ballast tank|ballast]], arriving at New York on 13 December 1918.
''Keresan'' steamed to Buenos Aires in January 1919 with general cargo, arriving in February 1919. Delayed at Buenos Aires by a [[Strike action|strike]], she finally departed in early May 1919 with a cargo of [[maize]] and returned to New York on 5 June 1919.
''Keresan'' was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] on 26 June 1919 and transferred the same day to the [[United States Shipping Board]] for simultaneous return to Kerr Navigation.
==Later career==
The ship returned to commercial service as SS ''Keresan''. She was sold to another American firm and became SS ''Mount Seward'' in 1921, then sold again in 1922, to a Hungarian firm that named her SS ''Debreczen''. A [[United Kingdom|British]] company bought her in 1927 and renamed her SS ''Fenwell'', then sold her in 1928 to another British firm, which named her ''Chislehurst''. Sold to a [[Shanghai]], [[China]]-based firm in 1933, she became first SS ''Yolande B'' and then SS ''Yolande'' before being wrecked near [[Weihaiwei under British rule|Weihaiwei]], China, on 5 March 1938.
==References==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k3/keresan.htm}}
*[http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-k/id1806.htm Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images:  U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Keresan'' (ID # 1806), 1918-1919. Originally S.S. ''Erodiade'' (Austrian Freighter, 1912). Later American S.S. ''Keresan'']
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171806.htm NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Keresan (ID 1806)]
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[[Category:World War I cargo ships of the United States]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Wear]]
[[Category:1911 ships]]
[[Category:Cargo ships of the United States Navy]]