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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65077-A

Westerner
(American Freighter, 1918)

Fitting out at the J.F. Duthie & Company shipyard, Seattle, Washington, on 26 January 1918.
This steamer was taken over by the Navy and placed in commission on 20 June 1918 as USS Westerner (ID # 2890). She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 21 August 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 March 2004