Photo #: NH 102164
USS Rogday (ID # 3583)
Probably photographed at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1918-1919.
Built in 1915 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
at Manitowoc, Wisconsin as the commercial freighter Nevada,
this icebreaking ship was purchased by Russia in 1917 and renamed
Rogday. She was taken over by the U.S. Navy at Sydney,
Nova Scotia and placed in commission as USS Rogday on
22 November 1918. Decommissioned on 18 June 1919, she was transferred
to the U.S. Shipping Board on 24 September 1919 and turned over
to a representative of the Czarist Russian government the same
day.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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