The Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1099 was a steel-hulled cargo ship design approved for mass production by the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War I.

Many of them were idled, two dozen were scrapped, and most of the remainder were sold to cargo fleets around the world by the Shipping Board.

By the beginning of World War II they were very widespread and carried critical materials for all the major combatants.

Their fuel tanks could hold between 664 and 708 tons of oil, giving them a steaming range of about 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi).

[4][failed verification] Completed in 1919 and 1920, the design 1099 class arrived too late to make a difference in World War I.

[9] Many design 1099 ships were idled because they were small and slow compared to much of the merchant marine fleet.

[citation needed] President Coolidge addressed the Shipping Board fleet in his 1927 state of the union speech.

[1] Some design 1099 ships were transferred to other government entities, rather than being sold to private interests.

The two dredges went to work for the US Army Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River, while the two parts ships were scrapped.

In 1940, the Soviet Union had the largest foreign fleet of design 1099 with eight ships,[17] but the ships also sailed under the flags of Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Panama.

[1] As a result, design 1099 ships both supported the war aims of, and were sunk by all the major combatants.

[19] Whether as a military auxiliary or a commercial freighter, World War II was dangerous for slow design 1099 ships.

Beyond the 25 ships that were sunk by enemy action, at least another 7 foundered or were wrecked in maritime accidents from 1940 to 1945.

She was wrecked on Alacranes Reef, off the Yucatan coast, on 26 December 1958, just short of 38 years after her completion in Detroit.