S.S. West Avenal, a 5808 gross ton (12,200-tons displacement) freighter was built at South San Francisco, California, as part of the World War I ship constrution program. Completed in early 1919, a few months after the conflict's end, she was turned over to the Navy at the beginning of February and placed in commission at that time as USS West Avenal (ID # 3871). After taking a cargo of flour from the West Coast to Norfolk, Virginia, she was decommissioned in early April 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. West Avenal was abandoned in 1928.
This page features the only view we have concerning the freighter West Avenal, which was USS West Avenal (ID # 3871) in 1919.
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