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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101779

SS Hatteras
(U.S. Freighter, 1917)

Probably photographed in 1917 while still in the hands of her builders, Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point, Maryland.
Ordered for the Cunard Line under the name War Dragon, she was taken over by the Navy and served during World War I as USS Hatteras (ID # 2142).

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 

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7 February 2001