USS Oglala (CM-4)

USS Oglala (CM-4)

USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928 was renamed for the Oglala, a sub-tribe of the Lakota, residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

She was originally built as Eastern Steamship Company's SS Massachusetts by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1907 for overnight coastal passenger steamer service through the Cape Cod Canal and Long Island Sound between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City. After the United States entered World War I Massachusetts and her sister ship Bunker Hill were among the eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage.