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Lake Tulare (ID 2652)


Cargo Ship: Built in 1918 as War Valour by the Superior Ship Building Co., Superior, WI; Renamed Lake Tulare before completion; Acquired by the Navy and commissioned Lake Tulare (ID 2652), 19 October 1918; Decommissioned, 15 September 1919 and was returned to the United States Shipping Board and sold to the International Coal Transportation Co., New York, NY; Sold in 1923 to K. Th. Einersen, Oslo, Norway and renamed Bestik; Sold in 1931 to the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Shanghai, China and renamed Hai Hsiang; Sold in 1938 to William Hunt & Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China; Sunk by Japanese at Shanghai, China, 8 December 1941; Raised after World War II and scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 2,003 t.; Length 261'; Beam 43' 6"; Draft 20'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament one 5" and one 3".


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Lake Tulare 100k 24 April 1918 Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

There is no DANFS History currently available for Lake Tulare (ID 2652) at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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