SS West View

USS West View, also spelled Westview, was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.

Although she was never assigned a naval registry identification number, she was delivered to the Navy on 21 November 1918 and commissioned the same day as USS West View at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington.

Voyaging via the Panama Canal, she arrived at New York City on 12 January 1919.

After this lone voyage, West View was decommissioned at New York City on 20 January 1919 and was transferred to the United States Shipping Board and stricken from the Navy List the same day.

Once again SS West View, she lay in reserve in the James River in Virginia in the custody of the U.S.Shipping Board and its successor, the United States Maritime Commission until ca.