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 54657
Prinz Eitel Friedrich (ex-German Passenger Liner,
1904)
Sailors pose with empty beer barrels removed from the ship's
hold, 20 April 1917, soon after she was seized by the United
States.
She was refitted for U.S. Navy service at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, renamed DeKalb and commissioned on 12 May 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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