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 ==[[wp:USS Neville (AP-16)|USS Independence]] - SP-3676==
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+Built as a steamer with three masts in 1918, this USS Independence was commissioned just eight days after the end of Earths World War I. Built in Alameda for the [[wp:United States Shipping Board|United States Shipping Board]], she was used as a Navy ship carrying food for the months following the end of the War, before being decommissioned and returned to the USSB in March 1919. She then served as part of the US Merchant Navy. She was rebuilt and renamed in 1930, becoming first the ''City of Norfolk'' and then in 1941, after another rebuild, the ''Neville''. In this guise, she served as an attack transport in World War II. She was decommissioned after the Second World War, and scrapped in 1957.
-(Steamer: 4,980 tons; length 440'2"; beam 56'; draft 28'8"; speed 11 knots; armamanet two 5-inch guns)
-The third Independence was built in 1918 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Alameda, Calif., for the United States Shipping Board. She was delivered to the Navy and commissioned 16 November 1918, Lt. O. P. Rankin in command. Independence sailed with a cargo of foodstuffs 6 December 1918, arrived New York 1 January 1918; and continued on to England. Upon her return to New York, the ship decommissioned 20 March 1919 and was returned to the USSB. She was later extensively rebuilt and sold 7 August 1930 to Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. and renamed City of Norfolk. In 1940 she was reacquired by the Navy and served in World War II as troop transport Neville. She served until 1946.-->
 ==[[wp:USS Independence (CVL-22)|USS Independence]] - CVL-22==