1920 ships: MS West Honaker, USS Argonne, USS Wright, Japanese battleship Mutsu, RMS Lancastria, USS Maryland, USS Weehawken, USS Edsall, USS Stewart, United States lightship Huron, Japanese cruiser Kiso, Japanese cruiser Tama

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Chapters: MS West Honaker, USS Argonne, USS Wright, Japanese battleship Mutsu, RMS Lancastria, USS Maryland, USS Weehawken, USS Edsall, USS Stewart, United States lightship Huron, Japanese cruiser Kiso, Japanese cruiser Tama, Japanese cruiser Kitakami, USS Trever, Japanese destroyer Akikaze, USS John D. Ford, USS Sicard, USS Trinity, USS Sturtevant, USS Wasmuth, Japanese cruiser Oi, USS Preble, USS Welborn C. Wood, USS Goff, Cutty Sark, USS Samaritan, USS S-23, SS Cap Tafelneh, USS Pope, USS Simpson, USS S-21, Japanese destroyer Shimakaze, SS Dzhurma, USS Truxtun, USS Omaha, MV Domala, USS Hunt, USS Salinas, French aircraft carrier Béarn, Japanese destroyer Hakaze, Japanese destroyer Nadakaze, USS Peary, USS S-18, Japanese destroyer Yakaze, USS Henry T. Allen, Japanese destroyer Shiokaze, USS George E. Badger, USS Paul Jones, SS Corvus, SS Nordmark, USS S-20, USS Hopkins, SS Empire Adur, USS Gold Star, Rudyard Kipling, USS Pillsbury, USS S-19, USS McFarland, SS Orlanda, SS Ussukuma, Lulworth, USS Tippecanoe, HMS Broke, HMS Frobisher, HMS Emerald, SS Empire Adventure, Fort Chesterfield, USS Lawrence, USS Mattole, USS Pruitt, USS McCormick, RMS Empress of Canada, USS Bulmer, HMS Thracian, USS Sepulga, USS Bainbridge, USS Childs, USS Neches, USS Munargo, SS Tiberton, USS King, USS Regulus, USS S-22, USS Yucca, USS Sumner, RMS Scythia, USS Keosanqua, USS S-15, Oregon Pine, USS James K. Paulding, HMAS Paterson, USS Dawn, SS Giulio Cesare, USS Bruce, USS Montcalm, USS S-17, SS Manistee, MS City of Rayville, USS S-9, USS S-8, USS S-7, HMS Forfar, HMAS Olive Cam, HNLMS Van Meerlant, HMAS Allenwood, USS Preston, USS City of Dalhart, USS S-10, USS Coghlan, USS Lamson, USS Macdonough, USS Mullany, SS Friedenau, TSS Scotia, SS City of Johannesburg, SS Oria, TSS Cambria, SS Iowa, TSS Hibernia, List of ship launches in 1920, TSS Anglia, USS Seaward. Excerpt: MS West Honaker was a diesel-powered cargo ship of the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) that was part of the "Corncob Fleet" of old ships sunk as part of the "gooseberry" breakwater off Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion. The ship was originally built as SS West Honaker, a steam-powered cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), a predecessor of the USMC. At the time of her completion in 1920, the ship was inspected by the United States Navy for possible use as USS West Honaker (ID-4455) but was neither taken into the Navy nor ever commissioned under that name. West Honaker was built in 1920 for the USSB, as a part of the West boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the World War I war effort, and was the 28th ship built at Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in San Pedro, California. In 1926, West Honaker was outfitted with diesel engines that replaced her original steam engines as part of a pilot program by the USSB. After her conversion, she sailed on a New York ¿ Australia route. On her second trip to Australia, from August 1927 to March 1928, she became the first diesel ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1929, she began sailing for an around-the-world cargo service from the Pacific coast to South Africa By the late 1930s, she had been laid up, but was reactivated for merchant service prior to World War II. She sailed to Australia and New Zealand until after the United States' entry into World War II, and in transatlantic service to the United Kingdom for most of the t...