Service History
Neville was built originally as the three-mast, 440-foot (130 m) screw steamer USS Independence in 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Alameda, California, for the United States Shipping Board. She was commissioned on 18 November 1918. After World War I service, she decommissioned on 20 March 1919 and was returned to the USSB for US Merchant Marine service. Rebuilt and renamed City of Norfolk in 1930, she was run by the Baltimore Mail Steamship Company until reacquired by the Navy on 14 December 1940. Converted by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon, she recommissioned as Neville (AP-16), on 14 May 1941, Captain C. A. Bailey in command.
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