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NH 100109 SS Baxley

Photo #: NH 100109 SS Baxley
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Title: SS Baxley
Description: (American Freighter, 1918) Probably photographed when completed. She is wearing dazzle type disruptive camouflage. This wooden hulled freighter, built at Jacksonville, Florida, as part of the World War I emergency fleet program, was transferred to the Navy and placed in commission on 1 October 1918 as USS Baxley (ID # 4449). She was decommissioned on 2 December 1918 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 100109
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