USS Munplace

The USS Munplace (ID-2346) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. Originally built by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, in 1916 for the Munson Steamship Line, the ship entered mercantile service after being delivered on May 9, 1916. The U.S. Navy acquired it on August 31, 1918, during World War I, commissioning it as USS Munplace at Newport News, Virginia.

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), the ship transported U.S. Army supplies to France. It crossed the Atlantic in convoy and arrived at Rochefort, France, on October 4, 1918. After discharging its cargo at La Pallice, it proceeded to Le Verdon-sur-Mer before returning to Norfolk, Virginia, on November 10, 1918, the day before the Armistice ending World War I.

In December 1918, USS Munplace made another voyage to La Pallice with additional Army supplies and returned to Newport News in January 1919. The ship was decommissioned on February 15, 1919, and returned to the Munson Steamship Line through the United States Shipping Board. Resuming its mercantile service as SS Munplace, it remained in commercial use until being scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1939.