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Photo #: NH 103245

USS America
(ID # 3006)

Under salvage at Hoboken, New Jersey, circa October-November 1918. She accidently sank at her pier on 15 October 1918.
This photograph provides a close-up view of the ship's port side, amidships, showing men on her deck, signal flags drying and laundry hanging from railings, smokestack stays and other locations.
Note the camouflage pattern painted on America's hull, superstructure and forward smokestack.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.

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Image posted 11 November 2005