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Photo # NH 98769:  Freighter Lightning at San Francisco in late 1945 or early 1946

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Lightning (American Freighter, 1942)

Lightning, an 8,591 gross ton diesel-powered freighter, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1942 to the Maritime Commission's C2-SU design as part of the World War II merchant shipbuilding program. Lightning was operated by United States Lines during the Second World War and by Pacific Far East Lines between August 1946 and June 1950, when she was placed in the Maritime Administration reserve fleet at Suisun Bay, California. Reactivated for Korean War service in April 1951, Lightning was operated by American President Lines until April 1955, and was then again laid up at Suisun Bay. The Maritime Administration sold her for scrapping in June 1971.

This page features the only view we have concerning the freighter Lightning of 1942.


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Photo #: NH 98769

SS Lightning


In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.
This freighter was completed in 1942 by the Maritime Commission for the United States Lines.

Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


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