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Freedom (ID 3024)


Cargo Ship: Built in 1894 as Wittekind at Hamburg, Germany; Seized by the U.S. Gevernment in 1917 and renamed Iroquois; Chartered by the U.S. Army during World War I; Renamed Freedom in 1918; Acquired by the Navy in January 1919; Commissioned Freedom (ID 3024), (date unknown); Decommissioned in September 1919 and returned to the United States Shipping Board. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 5,640 t.; Length unknown; Beam unknown; Draft unknown; Speed unknown; Complement unknown; Armament unknown.


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Freedom 135k In port in 1919, while engaged in transporting U.S. troops home from France. Note inscription at the bottom of the image: "U.S.S. Freedom, the ship that brought me home".
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1970.
USN Photo NH 73248
Naval Historical Center

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