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Photo #: NH 103268

S.S. War Banner
(American Freighter, 1917

In port soon after completion. This photograph may have been taken when she was inspected by the Third Naval District on 26 December 1917.
Soon renamed Lake Worth, this ship was commissioned as USS Lake Worth (ID # 2997) on 26 February 1918. She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 2 August 1919 and was renamed Phoenicier in 1922.

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Image posted 22 November 2005