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Photo # NH 99912:  Crew members of USS Cigarette, circa summer 1917

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Cigarette (SP-1234), 1917-1920 --
On Board, Close Up and Crew


This page features a broad selection of the views we have that were taken on board USS Cigarette (SP-1234), close up to her, or which show members of her crew and their activities.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Cigarette (SP-1234), 1917-1920.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 99920

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Alongside a dock at Essex, Connecticut, circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99915

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    "Captain's Gig" alongside the ship in a New England port, circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 435 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99921

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Crewmen on the ship's bridge, circa summer 1917.
    Note steam whistle on the ship's forward smokestack, at right.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99918

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Painting the ship's after smokestack, probably at Essex, Connecticut, circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99917

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Crewmen using galvanized pails to carry the coal to the ship, at Essex, Connecticut, circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99906

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Ship's officers and crew on board at Martha's Vinyard, Massachusetts, circa summer-fall 1917.
    The officer standing 4th from right is Boatswain Merrill Greenleaf, USNRF.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99907

    Boatswain Merrill Greenleaf, USNRF


    On board USS Cigarette (SP-1234), circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 425 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99913

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Eleven of the ship's crewmen posed with one of her life rings, at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa summer 1917.
    Ten of them are identified on the original print as (from left to right): Fiske, Ray, Wilson, Rowe, Wood, Cheesy (?), George K. Beach (directly behind life ring), Mark, Whorf, and Morris.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99912

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    "The Gang": crew members posed on her starboard bridge and forward deckhouse, circa summer 1917.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99908

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Five of the ship's crewmen seated on her forward deckhouse, circa summer 1917.
    Four of them are identified on the original print as (from left to right): Wilson, Morris, Fiske and Badger.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99922

    USS Cigarette
    (SP-1234)

    Liberty party prepares to leave the ship, circa summer 1917.
    Chief Petty Officer, in center, is W.K. Whorf. Sailor second from right is George K. Beach.

    Collection of George K. Beach.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Cigarette (SP-1234), 1917-1920.


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


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