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In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. -- General Omar Bradley |
Old Dominion, a 1802 gross ton seagoing barge, had been built as a steamship at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1872. The U.S. Navy acquired her in October 1917 and the following August placed her in service as USS Old Dominion (ID # 3025). She was employed transporting coal along the U.S. East Coast during the remaining months of World War I and into the post-war era. Old Dominion was inactivated in April 1919 and sold in October of that year.
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