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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101999

War Castle
(U.S. cargo ship, 1917)

Photographed circa late 1917, with ice and snow in the vicinity. She was renamed Lake Ontario by the U.S. Shipping Board, acquired by the Navy on 20 December 1917, and placed in commission on 19 February 1918 as USS Lake Ontario (ID# 2992).
Note lifeboats on the dock, in the foreground.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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22 October 2001