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Photo # NH 105235:  S.S. Tivives before World War I

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIP TYPES --

WORLD WAR I ERA SUPPLY SHIPS AND REFRIGERATED CARGO SHIPS --
of the Passenger-Cargo Type

Four of the U.S. Navy's WWI era supply ships and refrigerated cargo ships were of the passenger-cargo type. They fall into two groups, a class of three near sisters and one single ship.

This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy supply ships and refrigerated cargo ships of the passenger-cargo type, plus a photograph of each ship in this group.


Ships in this group:

FOUR SHIPS, subdivided as shown below:


Click each ship name to access that ship's complete Online Library entry.

Click the small photographs to prompt a larger view of the same image, and the words "Picture Data" to access the Picture Data Sheet for that image.



THREE SHIPS -- Passenger-Cargo Type: Foreign built, United Fruit 378-foot, 5,000-ton type

  • Carrillo, USN 1918-1919 (British built, ex American S.S. Carrillo, 1911).
    5012 Gross Tons; Length 378.7'; Breadth 50.25''
  • Sixaola, USN 1918-1919 (British built, ex American S.S. Sixaola, 1911).
    5017 Gross Tons; Length 378.7'; Breadth 50.3''
  • Tivives, USN 1918-1919 (British built, ex American S.S. Tivives, 1911).
    5017 Gross Tons; Length 378.7'; Breadth 50.3''

     S.S. Carrillo, circa 1918:

    Picture Data
     USS Sixaola, 1918:

    Picture Data
     S.S. Tivives:

    Picture Data


    ONE SHIP -- Passenger-Cargo Type: Foreign built

  • Moccasin, USN 1918-1919 (German built, ex German S.S. Prinz Joachim, 1903).
    4760 Gross Tons; Length 370.7'; Breadth 45.2'

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     S.S. Moccasin, 1917:

    Picture Data
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