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NH 65090 USS OLEAN (SP-1630)

USS OLEAN (SP-1630)
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Title: USS OLEAN (SP-1630)
Caption: OLEAN was built in 1917 by Harlan and Hollingsworth at Wilmington, Delaware. She received a Navy ship number (SP-1630) and may have seen naval service. She was owned at various points by the Vacuum Oil Co., of New York, and Henry Winton, of the same city, under whose ownership the ship was operated by the Union Sulphur Company. When Winton owned her, she was named C.A. SNIDER. Note the interesting camouflage scheme. Photograph taken in 1917-1918.
Description: Copied from ship's data card at Ships' Histories Section, 1968.
Catalog #: NH 65090
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
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After this Year: 1910
Before this Year: 1919
Original Medium: BW Photo
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