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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102265

Tuna
(American Motor Boat, 1911)

Ready for launching, at the Neilson Yacht Building Company yard, Baltimore, Maryland, 1911.
This craft was acquired by the Navy on 11 June 1917 and commissioned the next day as USS Tuna (SP-664). She was returned to her owner on 11 January 1919.
Note the large U.S. Yacht Ensign flying from Tuna's stern.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 December 2003