West Cressey was built in Seattle, Washington in 1918 by the Skinner & Eddy Corporation[REF]-the 21st in a series of 24 Design 1013 cargo ships built by the company for the USSBs emergency wartime shipbuilding program [REF].
West Cressey had a design deadweight tonnage of 8,800 tons and gross register tonnage of 5,600 [REF].