Photo #: NH 53595
S.S. Hoxbar (American Tanker, 1919)
Ready for launching at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company shipyard,
Sparrows Point, Maryland, on 15 February 1919.
This ship was turned over to the Navy on completion and placed
in commission on 13 June 1919 as USS Hoxbar (ID # 4341).
She was decommissioned on 28 August 1919 and returned to the
U.S. Shipping Board.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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