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Photo #  NH 104461:  USS Wakulla circa June 1918.

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USS Wakulla (ID # 3147), 1918-1919.
Originally and later S.S. Wakulla (American Freighter, 1918).


Wakulla, a 5898 gross ton (12,186 tons displacement) freighter, was completed at Los Angeles, California, in June 1918. After loading a cargo of flour she sailed for New York, where she arrived at the end of August. She then joined a Transatlantic convoy and delivered her cargo to Dublin, Ireland, at the end of September. Returning to New York in late November, Wakulla loaded supplies for the French Government and, in mid-December, sailed for Brest, France. She had to return to New York for repairs, and was only able to resume her voyage to France at the end of January 1919. Delivering her cargo at Bordeaux in February, the ship returned to New York in April with a partial cargo of Army ordnance material. Wakulla was decommissioned in April 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. She remained in that agency's custody until sold for scrapping at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1931.

This page features the only views we have concerning S.S. Wakulla and USS Wakulla (ID # 3147).


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Photo #: NH 65036

USS Wakulla
(ID # 3147)

Probably photographed in West Coast waters when first commissioned, June 1918.
Note her "dazzle" camouflage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 39KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 105612

USS Wakulla
(ID # 3147)

Probably photographed in West Coast waters when first commissioned, June 1918.
Note her "dazzle" camouflage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 385 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 104461

USS Wakulla
(ID # 3147)

Alongside a wharf, with crew members posing on her forecastle and alongside (one of the latter is holding a commissioning pennant), possibly when the ship was first commissioned in June 1918.
Note her "dazzle" camouflage.
The original photograph is printed on postcard ("AZO") stock.

Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 


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