Photo #: NH 102022
Mauna Loa (U.S. Motor Boat, 1916)
Underway in harbor, prior to her World War I Navy service. A
U.S. Navy destroyer is in the left background.
Photographed by Brown & Dawson, Stamford, Connecticut.
She was acquired by the Navy on 10 May 1917 and commissioned
a day later as USS Mauna Loa (SP-28). After World War
I service, she was returned to her owner on 5 December 1918.
Note the interesting flag flown from her jackstaff.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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