USS Atglen (ID-1315), also sometimes listed as ID-1350, was a United States Navy

United States Navy

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 barge

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 in service from 1917 to 1919.

Atglen was laid down as a non-self-propelled commercial barge at South Roundout, New York

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, in 1900. The U.S. Navy 3rd Naval District inspected her for possible World War I

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 service in 1917, and the Navy acquired her on 16 November 1917, assigning her one of two reported naval registry identification number

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s (either Id. No. 1315 or Id. No. 1350 She probably served in and near New York Harbor

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through the end of the war.

Atglen was returned to her owners sometime in 1919.