USS Oglala (CM-4) was built in 1907 as a commercial steamer and was commissioned in the Navy on 7 November 1917 and subsequently renamed USS Shawmut. Shawmut participated in WW I and after WW I she was converted to an aviation tender. On 1 January 1928
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