Photo #: NH 65139
SS Oakland (American Freighter, 1918)
On her trial trip, 30 May 1918.
Photographed by her builder, the Moore Shipbuilding Company,
Oakland, California.
This ship soon became USS Oakland (ID # 2847).
Note her pattern camouflage, builder's pennant flying from a
stub mast just aft of her forward gun platform, and U.S. Jack
and Ensign at half-staff.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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