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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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2 June 2003