Complex sentence: A wooden-hulled freighter constructed in 1919 at Portland, Maine, by the Russell Shipbuilding Company for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), she was acquired by the Navy from the USSB on 1 January 1922 in an incomplete condition.
Split into simpler sentences: A wooden-hulled freighter, she was constructed in 1919 at Portland, Maine, by the Russell Shipbuilding Company for the United States Shipping Board (USSB). On 1 January 1922 she was acquired by the Navy from the USSB in an incomplete condition.