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Specifications: Displacement 8,835 t.; Length 353' 3"; Beam 49'; Draft 23' 1"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 86;
Armament unknown.
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69k | In port, 1918. USN Photo NH 102133 |
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Assigned to NOTS, Polar Bear sailed 19 December 1918 with a full earzo of general Army supplies for the American Expeditionary Force in France. She dlseharged her cargo at La Palliee, Verdun, Bordeaux and Paulliae before returning to the U.S. 3 February 1919.
Polar Bear was decommissioned at New York 10 March 1919, and was returned to the USSB.
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