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==USS Freedom (ID-3024) (1894)== | ==USS Freedom (ID-3024) (1894)== | ||
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USS Freedom (ID-3024), a cargo ship, was built as Wittekind by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany, in 1894; seized by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) in 1917; renamed Iroquois, and chartered by the United States Army for use as a transport. She was renamed Freedom in 1918, acquired by the United States Navy on 24 January 1919, and commissioned the same day, Lieutenant J. C. C. Holier, USNRF, in command. | USS Freedom (ID-3024), a cargo ship, was built as Wittekind by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany, in 1894; seized by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) in 1917; renamed Iroquois, and chartered by the United States Army for use as a transport. She was renamed Freedom in 1918, acquired by the United States Navy on 24 January 1919, and commissioned the same day, Lieutenant J. C. C. Holier, USNRF, in command. | ||