High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Spica (AK-16) was an Sirus-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering necessary goods and equipment to ships and stations in the war zone. SS Shannock -- a cargo ship built in 1919 by American International Shipbuilding Corp. at Hog Island, Pennsylvania -- was acquired by the Navy from the United States Shipping Board on 16 November 1921 and renamed Spica (AK-16). Over the following 18 years, she remained out of commission, first at New York, then at Charleston, South Carolina, and finally at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from January 1927 until 1 March 1940, when Spica was commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, Comdr. E. D. Gibb in command.

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