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Photo #: 19-N-24236

SS Robin Kettering
(U.S. Freighter, 1941)

At the Tietjen-Lang Dry Dock Company, Hoboken, New Jersey, undergoing conversion to a Navy ship, 6 June 1941. She was commissioned as USS Alhena (AK-26) on 15 June 1941.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 530 pixels

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21 January 2002