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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Edgecombe (ID # 3894), 1918-1919.
Originally S.S. Edgecombe (American Freighter, 1918)
USS Edgecombe, a 6990 gross ton (13,903 tons displacement)
cargo ship, was built in 1918 at Seattle, Washington, for the
United States Shipping Board as the civilian freighter of the
same name. She was transferred to the Navy upon, or soon after,
completion and placed in commission in late December 1918. The
ship left the West Coast for Norfolk, Virginia, in mid-January
1919, subsequently proceeding across the Atlantic to England and
the Netherlands with a cargo of food to help relieve famine in
distressed post-World War I Europe. In April 1919, following her
return voyage to the United States, USS Edgecombe was decommissioned
and returned to the Shipping Board.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Edgecombe (ID # 3894) and the civilian freighter Edgecombe.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 102944
USS Edgecombe (ID # 3894)
At Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 16 March 1919.
The original photograph is printed on postal card stock, and
has a small photo of a man (possibly a member of the ship's crew)
pasted on its lower right corner.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 54341
S.S. Edgecombe (American Freighter, 1918)
At dock after launching, at the Skinner and Eddy Corporation
shipyard, Seattle, Washington, in 1918.
Turned over to the Navy after completion, she was commissioned
as USS Edgecombe (ID # 3894) in December 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 54340
S.S. Edgecombe (American Freighter, 1918)
At dock after launching, at the Skinner and Eddy Corporation
shipyard, Seattle, Washington, in 1918.
Turned over to the Navy after completion, she served as USS Edgecombe
(ID # 3894) from December 1918 to April 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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