USS Eastern Shore (ID-3500) was a cargo steamship that was built in Japan in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board (USSB).

[5] Eastern Shore had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine built by Kobe Steel Works.

[5] Eastern Shore loaded flour at Seattle, and left Puget Sound on 2 January 1919.

In 1934, four-letter wireless telegraph call signs superseded code letters, but none is recorded for Eastern Shore.

[7] A poem published in The American Marine Engineer in March 1919 made fun of Eastern Shore's arrival in Puget Sound in late 1918.

[8] The poem's wry observations on Eastern Shore's build quality may be borne out by the fact that, when only four months old, she had to stop for 12 days for repairs.