Photo #: NH 95902
Blanche (American Harbor Tug, 1878)
In port, circa 1918 or earlier.
Though Fifth Naval District inspectors evaluated her in June
1918 as unsuitable, this tug was taken over by the Navy's Bureau
of Supplies and Accounts and placed in commission as USS Blanche
(with no ID #) on 26 August 1918. She was decommissioned and
returned to her owners, W.A. Sanders and R.R. Stone, of Wilmington,
North Carolina, on 5 December 1918.
The original photograph is in Record Group 19-LCM in the National
Archives.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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