Building
The vessel was designed to be an army transport, ordered by the USSB from New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey and laid down in 1918. She was completed as Keystone State on 1 March 1921.
Keystone State was a turbine steamship, with eight Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers supplying steam to four Bethlehem Steel Curtis type steam turbines. Her four turbines drove twin propeller shafts by single reduction gearing. Her engines developed 12,000 shaft horsepower and gave her a speed of 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h) — as fast as many ocean liners of her time.
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