Photo #: NH 102156
Relief (American salvage ship, 1907)
Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service.
This ship was acquired by the Navy on 13 August 1918 and commissioned
on 19 August as USS Relief (ID # 2170). She was sold back
to her pre-war owners, the Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking
Company, on 15 May 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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