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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
Steamship Coronado (American Freighter, 1918).
Name changed from War Bay prior to completion
S.S. Coronado, a 5989 gross ton freighter, was built
during the First World War at Oakland, California. Her construction
had begun under the name War Bay, on British account, but
she was taken over for U.S. registry and renamed prior to her
early 1918 completion. Coronado may have been examined
for possible U.S. Navy use, and possibly received the Navy identification
number 2217, but she had no naval service. Listed in shipping
registers until the later 1930s as U.S. Government property, she
was presumably disposed of at that time.
This page features the only views we have concerning the
freighter Coronado of 1918.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 100252
S.S. Coronado (American Freighter, 1918)
Photographed on her trial trip, 15 January 1918, probably in
San Francisco Bay, California.
Built by the Moore and Scott Iron Works of Oakland, California,
as their Hull # 113, this ship was originally ordered by the
British Government for operation by the Cunard line as War
Bay. Taken over by the U.S. Government after the United States
entered World War I, she was similar to many ships built under
U.S. wartime emergency ship construction programs.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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The following photograph shows a freighter named Coronado,
which may be the same ship as that seen above:
Photo #: NH 55386
Steamship Coronado
"One of the hundreds of cargo ships that carried an armed
guard, usually with a Chief Petty Officer in command, during
the First World War." (quoted from the original World War
I era caption.)
This may be the freighter Coronado completed by Moore
and Scott Iron Works of Oakland, California, early in 1918. However,
though this ship generally resembles that seen in a January 1918
photo of the Oakland-built Coronado, there are significant
differences, among them the built-up midships hull side seen
here.
The ship passing by in the right background is USS SP-237
(formerly named Ranger). Location is probably in the vicinity
of New York City. The view may have been taken in late 1918 or
early 1919, as the ship's gun platforms are empty.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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