USS Beukelsdijk was a Dutch-owned turret deck ship that was built in England in 1903 as Grängesberg.

William Doxford & Sons built the ship in Pallion, Sunderland, as yard number 305.

The ship had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine built by Doxford.

She was eclipsed in 1905 when Doxford completed the Q-class bulk carriers Queda, Querimba, and Quiloa for the British India Steam Navigation Company.

[2] Müller bought the ship to carry iron ore from the port of Oxelösund in Sweden.

She was named after the Swedish town of Grängesberg, where the ore was mined, 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Oxelösund.

On 2 June 1907, while en route from Oxelösund to Rotterdam, Grängesberg ran aground off Falsterbo in southern Sweden.

[6] On 12 February 1912 Grängesberg collided with the Dutch fishing trawler Barendsz in fog in the North Sea.

[3] On 27 January 1916 Holland America Line (NASM) bought two turret deck ships from Müller & Co: Grängesberg, and the smaller Blötberg, and renamed them Beukelsdijk and Blommersdijk respectively.

[3] On 20 March 1918 the US government seized Beukelsdijk under angary in the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The next day she was commissioned into the US Navy as USS Beukelsdijk, with the Naval Regstry Identification Number ID–3135.

on 13 October Beukelsdijk left St-Nazaire for Quiberon Bay, where she disembarked her sick crew members to the naval hospital there.