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Photo # NH 89795:  USS Carola IV off New York City, circa July 1917

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USS Carola IV (SP-812), 1917-1919.
Originally steam yacht Carola IV (1885)

USS Carola IV, a patrol ship, was built in 1885 at Culzian, Scotland, as a 240 gross ton steam yacht. In June 1917, when she was owned by Leonard Richards of New York City, she was purchased by the Navy for World War I service. Commissioned in early July, she crossed the Atlantic to Brest, France, during that month and the next, voyaging by way of Newfoundland and the Azores. After brief patrol operation along the French coast, in October 1917 Carola IV was condemned as unseaworthy and dismantled for harbor service as an accomodation vessel. She was employed in that capacity through the end of the "Great War" and for a year beyond. USS Carola IV was decommissioned in late December 1919 and sold to a resident of Brest.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Carola IV (SP-812) and the civilian steam yacht Carola IV.


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Photo #: NH 89795

USS Carola IV
(SP-812)

In the Hudson River off New York City, with her crew manning the rail, circa July 1917.
She is painted in what appears to be a Mackay Low Visibility camouflage scheme.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 330 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 47468

Lieutenant John D. Pennington, USNRF


Photographed during World War I, while he was assigned to USS Carola IV (SP-812).
Note that this image is a double-exposure, with a second person's face appearing the the center of the view.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 520 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 104972

USS Carola IV
(SP-812)

Officers and Men assigned to the ship, photograped at Chateau Barracks, Brest, France in June 1919. The large number present indicates that they were nominally assigned to Carola IV, a rather small converted yacht used as an accomodation ship at Brest, but were actually stationed ashore.
Panoramic photograph by Thompson Illustragraph Company, Petersburg, Virginia.
Lieutenant John D. Pennington, USNRF, is standing in the middle of the arch just to the left of center, with his left hand in front of his waist and right hand in his pants pocket.
Note the musical instruments in the extreme left foreground.

Donation of Georgia Adams Grann and Caryl L. Adams, 2005. The original print came from the collection of their father, George W. Adams, who enlisted in the Navy in 1908.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 111KB; 1200 x 230 pixels

Note:
See Photo #s NH 104973 and NH 104974 for other views probably taken at the same time as this one.

 

Note: The original print is broken into six distinct fragments.


Note: Photo # NH 105581 was identified on the original print as having been taken on board USS Carola IV. However, it was actually taken on board a larger converted yacht, USS Wakiva (SP-160).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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Page made 29 September 2004
New image added 24 March 2008