Requisitioned Ships: Illustrations
Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del.
Requisitioned: 10 ships: Yard nos. 442, 445-6, 449, and 453-58.
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S.S. Cities Service Toledo, ex J.A. Bostwick (Yard no. 445) Departing a U.S. port on 13 February 1942. She had been delivered to the EFC on 5 August 1918 and reconveyed to Standard Oil of New Jersey on 8 January 1919. Photo No. None Source: www.aukevisser.nl/inter/id1160.htm |
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S.S. W.H. Tilford (Yard no. 442) This tanker was broken up at Baltimore in 1936. Her sisters were O.T. Waring (Yard no. 446) and Charles M. Everest (Yard no. 449). They were reconveyed to Standard Oil of New Jersey on 28 December 1917, 2 April 1919, and 1 October 1919 respectively. Photo No. None Source: www.aukevisser.nl/inter/id387.htm (credited to Sandy Mackay) |
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S.S. Biran and Garibaldi (Yard nos. 455-6/3455-6) Fitting out at their builder's yard on 27 May 1918. Biran on the left has her forward pair of derrick posts, forward gun platform, and amidships wireless mast in place while workers are installing the gun platform on the bow of the less advanced Garibaldi on the right. Biran was delivered to the EFC on 13 June 1918 and Garibaldi followed on 28 June 1918. Photo No. 165-WW-493F-011 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-165-WW |
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USS Saetia (Yard no. 453/3453) This small freighter was inspected by the Navy on 8 February 1918 and delivered to the EFC and commissioned in the Navy on 1 March 1918. In this view her forward gun has not yet been mounted. She was sunk by a mine off Ocean City, Md., on 8 November 1918. This photo is from the back of the ship's Navy inspection data card and may date from the inspection. The Mallory Line's Colorado became San Saba and not Saetia as sometimes reported. See her WWI page. Photo No. NH 105260 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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S.S. Northern Sword, ex Norma (Yard no. 458/3458) This ship, with the same deadweight tonnage as the EFC's earlier "Lakers," was delivered to the EFC on 31 December 1918 and to her operator on 10 February 1919. She is shown here one day after running aground on 20 February 1934 in a nor'easter with blinding snow at Winthrop Head, Mass. She was refloaded on 27 February 1934. Photo No. NH 105260 Source: U.S. Naval Historical Center |
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