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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98695

Ernest Hinds
(U.S. Army Hospital Ship, ex-transport, 1942)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1944-1945.
Built in 1918, this ship had also served in the Navy as USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804) and USS Kent (AP-28). She became the U.S. Army transport Ernest Hinds in 1942 and was converted to a hospital ship in 1943-1944.

Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 405 pixels

 

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25 August 2003