Edenton was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 at the No. 1 Plant of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation[REF]-the first in a series of 23 Design 1079 cargo ships built by Skinner & Eddy under the USSBs emergency wartime shipbuilding program [REF].
Edenton had a designed deadweight tonnage of 9,600[REF] and a gross register tonnage of about 7,000 tons [REF].