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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 105295
S.S. Aurora (American freighter, 1918)
Probably photographed soon after completion in September 1918.
Note that she has pairs of kingposts instead of the two masts
usually fitted to freighters. The alteration was probably a wartime
attempt to make the ship a more difficult target for submarines.
Also note her wartime camouflage.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Image posted 17 January 2008