Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65037-A

S.S. Western Sea
(American Freighter, 1918)

Afloat at the time of her launching, 25 May 1918. She was built by the J.F. Duthie & Company shipyard, Seattle, Washington.
This ship was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 29 June 1918 as USS Western Sea (ID # 3153). She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 9 May 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

15 March 2003