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Photo # NH 61686:  USS Arethusa in 1898

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIP TYPES --

WORLD WAR I ERA TANKERS --
with Smokestacks Amidships

Four of the U.S. Navy's WWI era tankers had their engines and smokestacks amidships.

This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy tankers with smokestacks amidships, plus a photograph of each ship in this group.


Ships in this group:

FOUR SHIPS with SMOKESTACKS (Funnels) AMIDSHIPS:


Click each ship name to access that ship's complete Online Library entry.

Click the small photographs to prompt a larger view of the same image, and the words "Picture Data" to access the Picture Data Sheet for that image.



TWO SHIPS -- Foreign built

  • Arethusa, USN 1898-1927 (British built, ex British S.S. Lucilene, 1893).
    3319 Gross Tons; Length 332'; Breadth 42.3'
  • Gargoyle, USN 1917-1918 (British built, ex American S.S. Gargoyle, 1902).
    4433 Gross Tons; Length 363.6' oa; Breadth 50.1'

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     USS Arethusa, 1898:

    Picture Data
     S.S. Gargoyle, 1917:

    Picture Data
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    TWO SHIPS -- American built

  • J. M. Guffey, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. J. M. Guffey, 1902).
    2520 Gross Tons; Length 292.2'; Breadth 40.2'
  • Winifred, USN 1918-1919 (ex American S.S. Winifred, 1898).
    2551 Gross Tons; Length 287.4'; Breadth 42.2'

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     S.S. J. M. Guffy, 1902:

    Picture Data
     S.S. Winifred:

    Picture Data
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