Photo #: NH 55241
SS City of Paris (British Passenger Liner, 1889)
At anchor, circa the late 1880s or the early 1890s.
This ship, a trans-Atlantic Blue Ribband winner when new, was
transferred to American registry and renamed Paris in
1893. She served as USS Yale in 1898. Rebuilt and renamed
Philadelphia in 1901, she again had Navy service in 1918-1919,
as USS Harrisburg (ID # 1663).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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