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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102003

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

Probably photographed near the end of her construction by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company, Toledo, Ohio, which had launched her on 25 October 1917. She was renamed Lake Superior by the U.S. Shipping Board, acquired by the Navy on 12 December 1917, and commissioned on 30 January 1918 as USS Lake Superior (ID# 2995).
Photographed by Herrick.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 

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6 November 2001