Photo #: NH 105639
S.S. Arauca (Ex-German Freighter, 1939)
Being towed out of Port Everglades, Florida, on 19 August 1941
headed for overhaul at Mobile, Alabama.
She had been seized by the United States for defense service
and flies the American flag aft. This German merchant ship had
been in Port Everglades since being chased into port there by
the British cruiser Orion in December 1939. She became
USS Saturn (AK-49, later AF-40) in 1942.
Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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