Other Projects Deodata/Quivilly

Quevilly, a 3271 gross ton 322-foot long four-masted steel sailing bark fitted as an oil tanker, was completed at Grand Quevilly near Rouen, France, in 1897. In an effort to extend the economic life of previously-subsidized French merchant sailing vessels, she was fitted in 1910 with a pair of 300-horsepower auxiliary diesel engines, driving two propeller shafts. This unusual French vessel was included in the list of ships that were to comprise the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), a U.S. Navy logistics force established by a Chief of Naval Operations' order signed on 9 January 1918. Since she was not yet in Navy hands, the bark was listed as "to be taken over." Quevilly sailed from France on 2 February 1918 and arrived in the Azores on 21 February. She operated there for the rest of the war as a station tank ship, providing fuel in port to ships. Quevilly was never commissioned or a regular U.S. Navy ship and remained a privately owned French vessel manned by a French crew. She remained in this status until 12 April 1919, when she was delivered to her Master as agent for her owners.

Laid up in 1921, Quevilly was sold to a Norwegian owner in 1923, re-engined in 1924 with a single 209-horsepower diesel engine driving a single screw, renamed Deodata in 1925, and derigged and converted to a whale oil tanker in 1926. She was sunk on 21 October 1939 off the east coast near Skegness by a mine laid by the German submarine U-19.