West Hosokie was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 1 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation[REF]-the 14th in a series of 24 Design 1013 cargo ships built by Skinner & Eddy for the USSBs emergency wartime shipbuilding program [REF].
West Hosokie had a design deadweight tonnage of 8,800 tons and gross register tonnage of 5,600.