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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65099-A

Agwidale
(U.S. Freighter, 1918)

Photographed by her builder, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, probably upon completion of construction in 1918. Note her camouflage.
This ship was acquired by the Navy and commissioned as USS Agwidale (ID # 4464) on 16 November 1918. The Navy returned her to the U.S. Shipping Board on 11 April 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 July 2002