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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102136

Kahkin IV
(Motor Boat, 1909)

Underway, prior to World War I.
This pleasure craft has previously been named Howmornel, and was later renamed Polly. She was acquired by the Navy on 14 May 1917 and commissioned one day later as USS Polly (SP-690). Following First World War service she was stricken on 11 March 1919 and transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 9 September 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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6 November 2002