Thanks to an alert subscriber, Cindy Lee, we now know a lot more about the ship BUSHONG. Great find! Thanks for posting. Unfortunately the post was rejected by Rootsweb because it was too long and was formatted for the List, so here is the abbreviated version with the information that Cindy Lee sent that concerns the ship in question. Cindy Lee found the information on a site that Tim Colton had created. G. M. Standifer Construction Company built two shipyards on the Columbia River for the WWI effort, one in North Portland for wooden ships and one in Vancouver for steel ships. The former was just west of the Interstate bridge, where the Inn on the Quay is today, and the latter was about a mile to the west, just downstream from the railroad bridge. Both yards were closed in 1921. There are some great old photographs. {on his site} There is some confusion, at least in my mind {Tim Colton} , as to which ships were built in which yard, because the known shipyard hull numbers and USSB hull numbers don't gibe. USBB# - 1121 Name of Ship - BUSHONG Type of Ship - Cargo Ship Owner of Ship - U. S. Shipping Board USBB Design - 1075 G. Tonage - 2848 Delivered - May 1919 Disposition - Scrapped 1924 -------------------- Researched by Cindy Lee and Submitted by Gloria Bushong for Cindy Lee