Photo #: NH 102134
Politesse (Motor Boat, 1911)
At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1917.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy for World War I
service and commissioned on 15 April 1917 as USS Politesse
(SP-662). She was returned to her owner on 29 May 1919.
Note Pennsylvania Railroad cars in the background.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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