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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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