Photo #: NH 41623
USS Santee (1917-1918)
Painted in "dazzle" camouflage, circa late 1917 or
early 1918.
Formerly S.S. Arvonian (British Freighter, 1905), this
ship became HMS Bendish in mid-1917. She was loaned to
the U.S. Navy and placed in commission in late November 1917.
Soon renamed Santee and employed as a "decoy ship"
(or "Q-ship") for anti-submarine patrols, she was torpedoed
on 27 December 1917. After repairs she was returned to the Royal
Navy and again named Bendish. The freighter resumed her
commercial career after World War I and during the next four
decades bore the names Arvonian, Brookvale, Spidola
and Rudau. She was broken up in 1958.
Courtesy Captain David C. Hanrahan, USN, November 1929.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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