Photo #: NH 99739
USS Isabel (SP-521)
At sea on 29 June 1918, photographed from USS Fairmont
(ID # 2429) by crewmember Grant S. Ray.
This "destroyer" (note torpedo tubes amidships), converted
from a fast yacht, had received wartime credit for destroying
at least one German submarine, though the U-Boat appears to have
actually escaped. Isabel was built for Toledo, Ohio, automobile
manufacturer John North Willys, not for a member of the Vanderbilt
family.
Collection of Grant S. Ray.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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