Photo #: NH 103413
U.S. Army Transport Republic
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by the Army Air Corps
prior to World War II, while the ship was near a pilot boat.
Built in 1907 as the German passenger liner President Grant,
this ship served as USS President Grant in 1917-1919.
She was S.S. Republic after World War I and became an
Army transport in 1931.
Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II",
by Roland W. Charles.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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