USS Northern Pacific
USS Northern Pacific was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was known as SS Northern Pacific before the war and, after her Navy service, as USAT Northern Pacific as a United States Army transport. She was destroyed by fire in 1922.
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Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
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