POLAR BEAR ID 3666
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
- Refrigerated Cargo Ship
- USS POLAR BEAR ID-3666 Commissioned December 3 1918
- POLAR BEAR (Commercial Service) Returned to United States Shipping Board
Built 1918 by the Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD as WAR NEPTUNE for the British Shipping Controller
Requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) for World War I service
Renamed POLAR BEAR prior to completion
Acquired by U.S. Navy September 28 1918
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS)
Decommissioned March 10 1919
Official Number: 217303
Laid up in 1923
Both Lloyd's Register of Shipping and Merchant Vessels of the United States have entries for POLAR BEAR
up to and including their 1929 editions. That does not necessarily mean the ship was still active though.
Scrapped in 1930
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Postmarks
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - The medium to large bear that inhabits the Northern Arctic
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