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Tankers Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service

 

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Name Builder and Year Delivered Original Owner Transferred to NOTS Disposition Date

Alameda W. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia-1919 USSB 17 Oct 1919 Sold[1] 9 Aug 1922
Amabala ex-Alabama Chicago Shipbuilding-1901 Texas Corp. 21 Aug 1918 To owners 17 Feb 1919
Arethusa ex-Lucilene Craig, Taylor & Co., Stockton, GB-1893 USN 9 Jan 1918 To Train 30 Jun 1919
Auburn Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa.-1918 USSB 24 Jan 1919 To USSB 22 Feb 1919
Broad Arrow New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.-1918 Standard Transport Corp. 17 Mar 1918 To USSB 24 Feb 1919
Chestnut Hill ex-Desdemona Pennsylvania Shipbuilding-1917 USSB 14 Mar 1918 To USSB 3 Sep 1919
Chinampa ex- Prometheus Palmer Shipbuilding, New Castle-on-Tyne-1903 Standard Oil Company 2 Oct 1919 To USSB 16 May 1919
Cuyama Mare Island Navy Yard-1916 USN 9 Jan 1918 To Train 23 Jan 1919
Frank H. Buck Union Iron Works, San Francisco-1914 Associated Oil Company 25 Jan 1918 To USSB 1 Feb 1919
Gargoyle ex-Pennoil Grangesmith Dry Dock, Greenock, Scotland-1903 Vacuum Oil Co. 9 Jan 1918 To owners 22 May 1919
George G. Henry Union Iron Works, San Francisco-1917 Los Angeles Petroleum Transport Company 23 Aug 1918 To USSB 21 May 1919
Gold Shell Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Del.-1916 Shell Company 9 Jan 1918 To USSB 4 Mar 1919
Herbert L. Pratt Union Iron Works, San Francisco-1918 Atlantic Refining Co. 10 Jun 1918 To USSB 18 Jan 1919
Histco Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa.-1917 USSB 9 Jan 1918 To USSB 1 Nov 1919
Houma Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point, Md.-1919 USSB 31 Mar 1919 To USSB 4 Sep 1919
Hoven Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point, Md.-1919 USSB 16 May 1919 To USSB 8 Sep 1919
Hoxbar Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point, Md.-1919 USSB 14 Jun 1919 To USSB 23 Aug 1919
J. M. Guffy New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.-1902 Gulf Refining[2] 14 Oct 1918 To USSB 17 Jun 1919
John M. Connelly Pennsylvania Shipbuilding, Gloucester, N.J.-1917 USSB 8 May 1918 To USSB 18 Jan 1919
Kanawha Mare Island Navy Yard-1915 USN 9 Jan 1918 To Train 12 May 1919
Los Angeles Union Iron Works, San Francisco-1916 Union Oil Company 9 Jan 1918 To USSB 17 Jan 1919
Maumee Mare Island Navy Yard-1916 USN 9 Jan 1918 To Train 18 Apr 1919
Patoka Newport News Shipbuilding-1919 USSB 13 Oct 1919 To Train date unknown
Robert L. Barnes McDougall-Duluth Co., Duluth, Minn.-1917 Robert Barnes Steamship Co.[2] 4 Sept 1919 To Train date unknown
Sara Thompson ex-Gut Heil W. Armstong, Mitchell & Co., New Castle-1888 J. W. Thompson 17 Sep 1918 To Train 4 Mar 1919
Standard Arrow New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.-1916 Standard Transport Corp. 9 Jan 1918 To USSB 29 Jan 1919
Sylvan Arrow New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.-1918 Standard Transport Corp. 25 Jul 1918 To USSB 21 Jan 1919
Topila Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va.-1913 East Coast Oil Company 9 Jan 1918 To USSB 24 Jun 1919
Wieldrecht Rotterdamsche Dromogodok, Rotterdam-1913 Maats Stommschip Wiedrecht 17 Jun 1918 To USSB 10 Apr 1919
William Isom Baltimore Shipbuilding, Baltimore, Md.-1917 Sinclair Gulf Corp. 24 Apr 1918 To USSB 21 Aug 1919
William D. Rockefeller W. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.-1916 Standard Oil Company 9 Jan 1918 Torpedoed and sunk 21 May 1918
Winifred Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine-1898 Gulf Refining Corp. 21 Jun 1918 To USSB 13 Mar 1919
W. L. Steed Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass.-1918 USSB 18 Sept 1918 To USSB 26 Mar 1919

[1]Taken over by USN on a bare boat basis.
[2]Transferred from USSB.

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