Lakes in Florida and Washington.
Lake Crescent, a cargo transport, was launched 31 January 1918 by the Chicago Shipbuilding Co., South Chicago, III.: operated as an Army cargo transport; acquired by the Navy 19 October 1919; and commissioned the same day at Cardiff, Wales, Lt. Comdr. Arthur B. Harding, USNRF, in command.
Operating out of Cardiff, Wales, Lake Crescent was assigned to NOTS as a coal transport between British and French ports.
After the Armistice, she steamed from Penarth, Wales, 14 February 1919 with 470 tons of Army stores and arrived New Orleans 15 March. A week later she departed on the first of four cruises to carry Army supplies from New Orleans to the Canal Zone. She returned to New Orleans 9 July, decommissioned on the 25th, and was returned to USSB the same day. She was sold to R. C. Pugand and operated by Columbian S.S. Co. under the name Padilla.
