Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102351

SS Vesta
(Dutch Freighter, 1907)

In port during World War I, with a large Netherlands flag painted on her hull to proclaim her neutral status.
This steamship was reported acquired and commissioned by the U.S. Navy on 21 March 1918, but was in fact not taken over. She was assigned the registry ID # 2506.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

6 January 2004