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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Lakeview (ID # 2186), 1918-1919.
Previously S.S. War Victor and S.S. Lakeview (American
Freighter, 1917).
Name sometimes given as Lake View.
War Victor, a 2003 gross ton (4700 tons displacement)
freighter built at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, was completed in November
1917. Soon renamed Lakeview (sometimes written as Lake
View), she was taken over by the Navy at New York in January
1918 for use as a mine carrier and commissioned on 23 February
1918 as USS Lakeview (ID # 2186). Between March and May
1918 the ship carried coal and general cargo from Norfolk to Nova
Scotia, Bermuda, and Newfoundland. In early June 1918 she departed
Norfolk, Virginia, with a cargo of mines and other military supplies
which was delivered in late June and early July to bases in Scotland
for use on the North Sea Mine Barrage. Between August and October
she made a second round trip cargo run from Norfolk to Scottish
ports. In January 1919 Lakeview took a load of coal from
Norfolk to Brest, France, and in April carried general cargo from
New York to Scotland. After returning to New York in July 1919
and subsequently moving south to Norfolk, she was decommissioned
there on 30 July 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board.
S.S. Lakeview was scrapped in 1926.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Lakeview (ID # 2186), S.S. War Victor and S.S. Lakeview.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 105267
S.S. War Victor (American freighter, 1917)
This freighter was completed in November 1917 and was soon renamed
S.S. Lakeview . She was in commission as USS Lakeview
(ID # 2186) from 23 February 1918 to 30 July 1919. This photo
may have been taken around the time of her inspection by the
Third Naval District on 5 January 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 71547
USS Lakeview (ID # 2186)
This freighter, built in 1917, was in commission from 23 February
1918 to 30 July 1919. She is shown here in drydock during that
period.
Courtesy Donald McPherson, circa 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 71561
USS Lakeview (ID # 2186)
This freighter, built in 1917, was in commission from 23 February
1918 to 30 July 1919. This view, taken on board in a Scottish
port, shows her loading a cargo of life rafts during that period.
Courtesy Donald McPherson, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 71548
USS Lakeview (ID # 2186)
Ship's Officers and Crew posed on the after end of her superstructure,
9 July 1919.
Photographed by Hughes and Estabrook, 251 W. 42nd St., New York
City.
Courtesy Donald M. McPherson, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 71549
USS Lakeview (ID # 2186)
Enlisted Men of the ship's Engineer Force, posed on the after
end of her superstructure, 1919.
Probably photographed by Hughes and Estabrook, 251 W. 42nd St.,
New York City, on or about 9 July 1919.
Courtesy Donald M. McPherson, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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New images added 27 November 2007