The steamship Defiance, a 7898 gross ton freighter, was built in 1918 at Alameda, California, as part of the World War I emergency ship construction program. Upon completion in September 1918 she was taken over by the Navy and placed in commission as USS Defiance (ID # 3327). On her maiden voyage in September and October, she carried flour and naval stores from San Francisco to New York. Beginning later in October the ship, now loaded with U.S. Army supplies, joined a trans-Atlantic convoy bound for England and France. After more than two months in European waters, she arrived back in the U.S. in mid-February 1919. USS Defiance was decommissioned at the beginning of March and returned to the United States Shipping Board.
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