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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102565

Whirlwind
(American Motor Yacht, 1909)

Underway prior to her World War I era Naval service.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy on 11 May 1917 and commissioned on 26 June 1917 as USS Whirlwind (SP-221). She was stricken from the Navy list on 24 April 1919 and sold on 30 June 1919.

The original photograph is in Record Group 19-LCM in the National Archives.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 

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9 September 2004