Photo #: NH 65089-A
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on 18 November 1918, the day she was commissioned.
Santa Teresa was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on
7 October 1919 and became the mercantile Kent in 1936.
During 1941-1946 she was USS Kent (AP-28) and the U.S.
Army Transport (and Hospital Ship) Ernest Hinds.
The small ferry steamer Tinicum is at right. A destroyer
in visible behind Santa Teresa.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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