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Photo # NH 99879: SS Cape Henry at Sparrows Point, Maryland, circa 1918


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S.S. Cape Henry (American Freighter, 1918).
Served as USS Cape Henry (ID # 3056) in 1918-1919

Cape Henry, a 4992 gross ton (10,489 tons displacement) freighter, was built in 1918 at Sparrows Point, Maryland, for the U.S. Shipping Board. Upon completion in late October 1918 she was turned over to the Navy and placed in commission as USS Cape Henry (ID # 3056). She made one voyage while in Navy hands, a trip to France with U.S. Army cargo that began in December 1918. The ship returned to New York in February 1919 and was decommissioned and delivered to the Shipping Board in early March. Renamed Dorothy at some point in the next two and a half decades, the former Cape Henry was transferred to Honduran registry in 1951.

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Photo #: NH 99879

Cape Henry (American Freighter, 1918)

Composite photograph, taken circa October 1918, while the ship was in the final stages of fitting out at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland.
Note her pattern camouflage.
This freighter was transferred to the Navy on 26 October 1918 and placed in commission as USS Cape Henry (ID # 3056). She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 3 March 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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