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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53579

SS Liebenfels
(ex-German Freighter, 1903)

In dry dock at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, on 1 May 1917, showing marine growth accumulated on her hull while she was inactive at Charleston following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. The ship was in the drydock to be converted for Naval service and was commissioned as USS Houston in early July 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 February 2003