Photo #: NH 86448
USS Kaiser Wilhelm II (ID # 3004)
Drawing by Vernon Howe Bailey, 1917, depicting the ship in drydock
at the New York Navy Yard in the Summer of 1917, while she was
being refitted for U.S. Navy service. This view shows men painting
her underwater hull on the starboard side.
Commissioned in August 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II was soon
renamed Agamemnon.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Donation
of Mrs. Wilbur Jenkins.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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