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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105018

USS Patricia
(1919-1919)

One of the ship's life boats alongside, with its crew suffering from sea sickness, 12 June 1919. Patricia was then removing men from USS Graf Waldersee (ID # 4040), which had been disabled in collision with S.S. Redondo a few hours after departing New York on a voyage to France.
Edward D. Porges, then an officer on Patricia, inscribed this photograph: "My men all laying sea sick".

Photograph from the album of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edward D. Porges. Donated by his daughter, Gail Porges Guggenheim, 2007.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 5 September 2007