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Photo # NH 53892:  USS George Washington leaving New York in March 1919 with President Wilson on board

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS George Washington (ID # 3018), 1917-1919 --
President Wilson's Voyage to France, March 1919


This page features all the views we have concerning President Woodrow Wilson's March 1919 trip to France on USS George Washington (ID # 3018).

For views related to President Wilson's other voyages on USS George Washington, see:

  • USS George Washington (ID # 3018) -- Views taken during President Wilson's European Voyages.


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

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

    Photo #: NH 53888

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Steaming out of New York Bay on 5 March 1919, en route to France with President Woodrow Wilson on board.
    Photographed from an accompanying destroyer, whose crew is manning the rail as the transport passes by.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53891

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Carrying President Woodrow Wilson and his party to France in March 1919.
    Photographed from the deck of one of the destroyers that convoyed the ship out to sea from New York Harbor. Four HS-type flying boats are passing by and another destroyer is steaming astern of George Washington.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53892

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Leaving New York in March 1919 with President Woodrow Wilson on board, during his second trip to France.
    Photographed from an escorting destroyer, with a blimp overhead.
    Note the destroyer's after torpedo tubes and wake. Despite being underway, she is flying her National Ensign from the stern flagstaff.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 525 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53889

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Photographed from an aircraft while carrying President Woodrow Wilson and his party to France in March 1919.
    Note the President's flag flying from the peak of George Washington's second mast.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53890

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Photographed from an aircraft while carrying President Woodrow Wilson and his party to France in March 1919.
    Note the President's flag flying from the peak of George Washington's second mast, and an HS-type flying boat passing by in the distance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43045

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Steaming twenty-five miles at sea, while transporting President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to France to take part in the Versailles Peace Conference, 5 March 1919.
    The ship is flying the Presidential flag from atop her second mast.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46700

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Steaming twenty-five miles at sea, while transporting President Woodrow Wilson to France to take part in the Versailles Peace Conference, 5 March 1919.
    The image also features vignette portraits of President Wilson (upper left) and the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Edward McCauley (upper right).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100628

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Off Brest, France, with President Woodrow Wilson on board, circa 13 March 1919.
    Note the Presidential flag flying atop George Washington's second mast, and escorting U.S. Navy destroyer beyond her after smokestack.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100629

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Dinner menu printed on a postal card, which also features a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson, his signature, the Presidential flag and a photograph of the ship as she approached Brest, France, with the President on board in March 1919.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 52KB; 420 x 765 pixels

     


    For views related to President Wilson's other voyages on USS George Washington, see:

  • USS George Washington (ID # 3018) -- Views taken during President Wilson's European Voyages.


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


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