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