DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 101998
War Beaver (U.S. cargo ship, 1917)
Photographed in an icy port, circa late 1917. Renamed Lake
Erie by the U.S. Shipping Board, she was acquired by the
Navy on 31 December 1917 and placed in commission on 17 January
1918 as USS Lake Erie (ID# 2190).
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 450 pixels
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.