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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102050

Nahunta
(American Barge, 1866)

Photographed prior to her World War I naval service. Formerly named West Point, this seagoing iron coal barge was originally built as a merchant sailing vessel.
She was commissioned by the Navy as USS Nahunta on 8 August 1917. Stricken on 13 June 1919, she was sold on 2 October 1919. Nahunta had no Navy registry number.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 April 2002