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Photo #: NH 85180-A

USS Venetia
(SP-431)

Photograph dated 26 February 1919, upon her return to San Francisco, California, following World War I service. She has a star mounted on her smokestack in recognition of her wartime anti-submarine activities.
Venetia was formerly the yacht of San Francisco businessman John D. Spreckles.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Note:
For a version of this view showing the the ship's extreme bow and stern, but which is disfigured by two vertical cracks, see: Photo # NH 85180.

 

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Image posted 21 January 2006