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Photo # NH 65133: S.S. Mundelta, later USS Mundelta, circa 1917

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S.S. Mundelta (American Freighter, 1917)
Served as USS Mundelta (ID # 1301) in 1918-1919.
Later S.S. Munlock and Rizan Maru.

Mundelta, a 5288 gross ton (10,675 tons displacement) freighter, was completed at Newport News, Virginia, in April 1917. She was commissioned at New York on 27 April 1918 as USS Mundelta (ID # 1301). During May the ship carried an Army cargo in a convoy from New York to Le Havre, France, and through the rest of 1918 she made three more transatlantic voyages, each time delivering cargo at Bordeaux, France. In January 1919 Mundelta took a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia, to Havana, Cuba. Moving to Mobile, Alabama, and then to New Orleans, Louisiana, she was decommissioned on 11 February 1919 and delivered to the U.S. Shipping Board for simultaneous return to her owners, the Munson Steamship Company of New York City.

In 1937 the freighter was sold to a British firm based in Shanghai as S.S. Munlock. Seized by the Japanese in 1941, she became Rizan Maru and on 21 September 1944 was torpedoed and sunk in the north Pacific area by USS Searaven (SS-196).

This page features all available views concerning the American freighter Mundelta, USS Mundelta (ID # 1301), and S.S. Munlock and Rizan Maru.


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Photo #: NH 65133

S.S. Mundelta (American freighter, 1917)

This freighter was in commission as USS Mundelta (ID # 1301) from 27 April 1918 to 11 February 1919. The photograph was taken by E. P. Griffith of Newport News, Virginia, probably at the time of the ship's completion by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 105275

S.S. Mundelta (American freighter, 1917)

This freighter was in commission as USS Mundelta (ID # 1301) from 27 April 1918 to 11 February 1919. The photograph may have been taken during an inspection by the Third Naval District in 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 410 pixels

 


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