Photo #: NH 102513
S.S. Wassaic (American Freighter, 1918)
Underway, probably when first completed by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company, Los Angeles, California, in mid-1918.
This Emergency Fleet Corporation steamship was acquired by the
Navy and placed in commission as USS Wassaic (ID # 3230)
on 14 October 1918. She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board
on 29 May 1919.
Note her pattern camouflage.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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