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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65054-A

West Cressy
(American Freighter, 1918)

Just after launching, at the Skinner & Eddy Corporation shipyard, Seattle, Washington, 14 November 1918. Photographed by Frank H. Nowell, 1212 Fourth Avenue, Seattle.
This ship was delivered by the builder on 17 December 1918 and placed in commission as USS West Cressy (ID # 3813). She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 13 May 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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15 December 2003