Photo #: NH 65045-A
SS Texan (American Freighter, 1902)
Photographed prior to World War I, with a building in the right
background bearing the name of her owner, the American Hawaiian
Steam Ship Company. The print carries her builder's stamp: New
York Shipbuilding Corp., of Camden, New Jersey.
This ship was acquired by the Navy on 18 March 1918 and commissioned
on 23 March as USS Texan (ID # 1354). She was turned over
to the United States Shipping Board on 22 August 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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