Glen White, a 5438 gross ton (12,163 tons displacement)
collier built in 1918 at Camden, New Jersey, was one of a series
of eight similar ships built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp.
between 1915 and 1918 for two U.S. coastal shipping firms, the
Coastwise Transportation Co. and Darrow Mann Co. Five of these,
Plymouth (ID
# 3308), Fairmont
(ID # 2429), Glen White (ID # 2068), Winding
Gulf (ID # 3379), and William
N. Page (ID # 3844) served in the Navy, while Franklin,
Tidewater, and Sewalls
Point did not.
On 22 July 1918, immediately after completing construction, S.S.
Glen White was transferred to the Navy and placed in commission
USS Glen White (ID # 2068). She was employed by the Navy
as a general cargo ship and not as a collier. The ship made her
first transatlantic crossing during August 1918, in a convoy from
Norfolk, Virginia, to St. Nazaire, France. Glen White returned
to New York in late September 1918, loaded a second cargo, and
made another crossing to St. Nazaire during October. A third voyage
to St. Nazaire followed in December 1918 and January 1919. Glen
White returned to Baltimore in February 1919 and was decommissioned
there on 6 March 1919. She operated as a merchant ship for a series
of different American owners, but without changing her name, until
she was scrapped at Philadelphia in 1948.
Note: World War I-era Navy clerks appear to have thought that Glen White was S.S. Tidewater renamed and that both names referred to the same ship. They assigned ID # 2068 to this ship -- the number was later used exclusively for Glen White. Shipyard and other records make it clear that these were different vessels. Additional evidence of the error was provided when in May 1943 S.S. Glen White and S.S. Isaac T. Mann (ex-Tidewater) sailed from Cuba to New York in the same convoy.
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Page made 26 May 2008
New image added 6 December 2008