DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
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.
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