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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 101976
SS Manta (U.S. Freighter, 1916)
Photographed circa 1917.
This ship was taken over by the Navy and placed in commission
on 8 December 1917 as USS Manta (ID # 2036). After World
War I service, she was returned to her owner on 13 March 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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