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Polar Sea (SP 3301)


Refrigerated Cargo Ship: Built in 1918 as Warrenton by the Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD; Acquired by the Navy 23 October 1918 and commissioned Polar Sea (SP 3301) the same day at Hoboken, NJ; Decommissioned 12 June 1919 at New York and returned to the United States Shipping Board. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 8,835 t.; Length 353' 3"; Beam 49'; Draft 23' 1"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 86; Armament one 6" and one 6-pounder.


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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Polar Sea (SP-3301), formerly Warrenton, was built in 1918 by the Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore Md., for the Garland Steamship Corp., requisitioned by the USSB for use in NOTS as a refrigerated cargo ship 11 April 1918, and commissioned at Hoboken, N.J. 23 October 1918, Lt. Comdr. George Campbell, USNRF, in command.

Polar Sea left New York 6 November 1918 on the first of three runs to St. Nazaire, France with provisions for the American Expeditionary Force. Her important cargo included 2,387 tons of frozen beef as well as Army trucks and general supplies.

Polar Sea decommissioned 12 June 1919 at New York and returned to the USSB.


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