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805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
Postmaster General (American Harbor Passenger Steamer,
1898).
Served as USS Postmaster General (ID # 2364) in 1918-1919
Postmaster General, a 434 gross ton harbor passenger
steamer, was built at Noank, Connecticut, in 1898. She was chartered
by the Navy in February 1918 and placed in commission as USS Postmaster
General (ID # 2364) in June of that year. For the rest of
the First World War, and the first several months after the Armistice,
she performed mail duty for patrol forces operating in the New
York Harbor area. The steamer was returned to her owner in May
1919.
This page features the only views we have concerning the
steamer Postmaster General, which was USS Postmaster
General (ID # 2364) in 1918-1919.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 102140
Postmaster General (Harbor Passenger Steamer, 1898)
Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service.
This steamer was chartered by the Navy on 28 February 1918 to
provide postal services. She was commandeered in June 1918, commissioned
on 20 June as USS Postmaster General (ID # 2364) and returned
to her owner on 6 May 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105605
S.S. Postmaster General (American harbor steamer,
1898)
Photographed circa 1917. This ship was in commission as USS Postmaster
General (ID # 2364) from June 1918 to May 1919.
This vessel was owned by the Harbor Steamship Co. of New York.
Of the two ornate inscriptions on the bow, the larger reads "U.S.
Mail" and the smaller, in the dark ribbon, reads "Postmaster
General."
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Page made 13 November 2002
New image added 10 April 2008