High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Alloway (1918) was a cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for transporting war materials on the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. Shintaka a screw steamer built in 1918 at Oakland, California, by Moore & Scott was acquired by the Navy on 11 July 1918; renamed Alloway (Id. No. 3139); and commissioned at San Francisco, California, on 12 July 1918, Lt. Comdr. F. C. Dellegar, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), Alloway departed San Francisco soon after commissioning and set a course for the west coast of South America. She arrived at Arica, Chile, on 17 August and began loading a cargo of nitrates. The cargoman departed Arica near the end of the month and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 September. She discharged the nitrates at Norfolk and then moved on to New York City for repairs.