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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53576

SS Liebenfels
(ex-German Freighter, 1903)

In dry dock at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, while undergoing conversion for Naval service, 6 May 1917.
She was commissioned as USS Houston in early July 1917.
Note dredge in the right distance, and timber stores in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 February 2003