Polar Bear, a 4092 gross ton steamship, was built at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1918 as part of the First World War merchant ship building program. She was taken over by the Navy in September 1918 for assignment to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. Commissioned in early December 1918 as USS Polar Bear (ID # 3666), she made one round-trip voyage to France between December 1918 and February 1919. The ship was decommissioned in March 1919 and returned to the United States Shipping Board.
This page features our only view of the freighter Polar Bear.
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Page made 29 October 2002