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SS Sea Hare (War Shipping Administration)
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SS Sea Hare (MC hull 1553), Western Pipe & Steel Hull No. 130, launching, 29 June 1944, at Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco. CA. |
Tommy Trampp |
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SS Sea Hare (MC hull 1553), Western Pipe & Steel Hull No. 130, fitting out at San Francisco, July and August 1944. |
Tommy Trampp |
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SS Sea Hare under way probably in San Francisco during builders trials in December 1944. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
USS Goshen (APA-108)
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USS Goshen (APA-108) under way off the U.S. West Coast during her shakedown cruise, 15 January 1945. She had been commissioned
on 13 December 1944. The ship appears to be making a smoke screen from generators mounted on her after deck. This photograph was taken from a blimp of Lighter Than Air
Patrol Squadron Thirty One (ZP-31).
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 107710 |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Goshen (APA-108) at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
Michael Skeen for William G. Hanley, USS Goshen |
Merchant Service
American Mail SS Co.
Waterman SS Corp. |
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SS California Mail [ex-USS Goshen (APA-108)] in the livery of the American Mail SS. Co. entering the port of Vancouver. B.C., Canada, date unknown.
Photo ©Ship Photo International. |
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SS Lafayette [ex-USS Goshen (APA-108)] in the livery of the Waterman SS. Co. entering the port of Durban, South Africa, date unknown.
Photo ©Ship Photo International. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |