Photo #: NH 102512
Washington (American Schooner Barge, 1879)
At anchor, prior to her brief World War I Naval service.
Previously named Manuel Llaguno, this barge was acquired
by the Navy as Washington (SP-1241) on 18 October 1917.
On 1 December 1917, while in use as a seagoing coal barge, she
was wrecked in a snowstorm in the Ambrose Channel, New York.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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