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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102522

S.S. West Grama
(American Freighter, 1918)

Underway, possibly while in Naval service in 1919.
This ship was acquired by the Navy and placed in commission on 9 January 1919 as USS West Grama (ID # 3794). She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 16 June 1919.
Note that she wears a peacetime paint scheme, but flies a Jack at her bow.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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15 June 2004