Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102249

Sylvia
(American Motor Boat)

Underway, prior to World War I.
Acquired by the Navy on 15 June 1917, this pleasure craft was commissioned on 4 September 1917 as USS Sylvia (SP-471) and became USS SP-471 in early 1918. Stricken on 24 April 1919, she was awaiting sale at Key West, Florida, when she was destroyed by a hurricane in September 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 480 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

13 October 2003