Photo #: NH 89976
S.S. Tashkent (Soviet Freighter, 1914)
At anchor in San Francisco Bay, California, during World War
II.
Built in 1914 as the American flag freighter Iowan, this
ship was USS Iowan (ID # 3002) in 1917-1919 and then reverted
to commercial operation under the same name. She was turned over
to the Soviet Union on 26 December 1942. In the late 1950s she
was reportedly transferred to North Korea.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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