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Photo #: NH 54700

German Passenger Liners and Freighters


Interned at their piers at Hoboken, New Jersey, on 4 April 1917, two days before the United States declared war on Germany. In the foreground is the stern of a U.S. Navy destroyer, which is keeping watch on the ships.
The piers are those of the Hamburg-America Line (left center) and the North German Lloyd Line (right center). The large ship at left is S.S. Vaterland (later USS Leviathan). The four-funneled liner in right center is probably S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II (later USS Agamemnon).
Note the 3"/50 gun on the destroyer's after deck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 24 September 2005