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Photo #  NH 101944:  Motor boat Joanna, circa 1917


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Joanna (Motor Boat, 1917);
Later USS Joanna (SP-1963), 1917-1920

Joanna, a 5-ton motor boat, was built at Watervliet, New York, in 1917. Purchased by the Navy for World War I service in December 1917 and commissioned in the same month, she served in the New York area. In 1920, she was written off as "unaccounted for abroad".

This page features our only view of the motor boat Joanna, later USS Joanna (SP-1963).


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Photo #: NH 101944

Joanna
(U.S. Motor Boat, 1917)

Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service.
She was USS Joanna (SP-1963) from December 1917 until 1920.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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