Photo #: NH 102209
Topsy (American Motor Boat, 1910)
Underway prior to World War I. This pleasure craft was also named
Mona and Shrewsbury during the years before the
First World War.
This boat was acquired by the Navy on 13 April 1917 and commissioned
on 23 April 1917 as USS Shrewsbury (SP-70). She was stricken
on 16 September 1919 and sold on 20 October 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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