Fort Wayne, a 6245 gross ton (12,260 tons displacement) freighter, was completed in December 1918 at Baltimore, Maryland and placed in commission as USS Fort Wayne (ID # 3786). The ship loaded general cargo and sailed from Baltimore in late January 1919 for Gibraltar, with a refueling stop at the Azores. At Gibraltar Fort Wayne received orders to deliver her cargo at La Spezzia, Italy, where she arrived in mid-February. Because of a shortage of cargo handling workers she was delayed there for almost a month and finally sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, in mid-March. After refueling at the Azores the freighter had to return there in early April for repairs to her propeller. USS Fort Wayne was decommissioned at Norfolk in April 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. S.S. Fort Wayne was sold by the Shipping Board to a commercial firm in 1929 and was scrapped in Japan in 1934.
This page features the only views we have concerning the American freighter Fort Wayne, which became USS Fort Wayne (ID # 3786) in 1918.
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S.S. Fort Wayne is seen in the left background of the following view of another ship:
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Page made 12 December 2007