
Fifteen of the U.S. Navy's WWI era tankers had their engines and smokestacks aft and three masts.
This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy tankers with smokestacks aft and three masts, plus a photograph of each ship in this group.
FIFTEEN SHIPS:
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.
ONE SHIP -- with flush decks: New York SB 468-foot type. This ship was probably a near sister to the three 468-foot ships from the same yard on the page for tankers with two masts.
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ONE SHIP -- with flush decks except for a well forward: Foreign built
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ONE SHIP -- with raised hull islands forward (forecastle) and aft (poop): Foreign built
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TWO SHIPS -- with three raised hull islands: Miscellaneous American built
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THREE SHIPS -- with three raised hull islands: Union Iron Works/Bethlehem Steel, Alameda, 435-foot type. These ships were probably similar to the three 435-foot ships of Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1047 built at the Bethlehem Steel yard at Sparrrows Point, Maryland.
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| If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 4 January 2008