Photo #: NH 781
S.S. Mongolia (American Passenger-Cargo Steamship,
1904)
Ship's after six-inch gun and its crew, April 1917. The two officers
at right are identified, in the original photo caption, as Lieutenant
Ware and Captain Emory Rice of the U.S. Naval Reserve Force.
Note shells on deck, painted with letters: "T-E-X-A-S"
and "T-E-D-D-Y" Mongolia was assigned a Navy
armed guard on 17 March 1917. She engaged a German submarine
on 19 April 1917, the first U.S. ship encounter with a U-Boat
after the United States entered World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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