DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104062
Elf (American Motor Boat, 1917)
In port on a winter day, circa early 1917.
Note the ice on her lifelines and deck.
This motor pleasure craft was commissioned on 3 May 1917 as USS
Elf (SP-81). She was returned to her owner, Louis H. Eisenlohr
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 10 January 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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