Photo #: NH 102137
USS Polly (SP-690)
In port during World War I.
Built in 1909 as a pleasure craft, and named Howmornel,
Kahkin IV and Polly in that role, she was acquired
by the Navy on 14 May 1917 and commissioned one day later. She
was stricken on 11 March 1919, following First World War service,
and transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 9 September 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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