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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 100578

USS Astrea (SP-560)


At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1917-1919.
Built as a pleasure craft in 1916, this motor boat was acquired by the Navy and commissioned in June 1917. Following World War I service at home and abroad, she was sold on 31 March 1920.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 April 2003