USS Santa Olivia was decommissioned in July 1919 and returned to her owners. She had long subsequent civilian employment, under the names Santa Olivia , Kansan and Jackstar , and was not scrapped until 1955. This page features our only views of the World War I era U.S. Navy cargo ship Santa Olivia . Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image. Photographed upon completion, circa July 1918.
Location is probably the Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She is painted with a disruptive camouflage pattern. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Courtesy of the Caraway Company, Rutterford, N.J., 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Return to Naval Historical Center home page.