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Photo #: NH 99431

S.S. Western Spirit
(American Freighter, 1918)

In port, possibly at Portland, Oregon, in July 1918, when first completed by the Northwest Steel Company, of Portland.
This ship was commissioned as USS Western Spirit (ID # 3164) on 30 July 1918. She was decommissioned on 17 April 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board.
Note her pattern camouflage.

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28 June 2004