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Album S-586, page 32: Views of and on board USS Powhatan, 1919

Online Library of Selected Images -- Photo Albums
(Naval History and Heritage Command Photographic Lot # S-586)

Robert H. Helm's USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) Photo Collection
-- General Description, Part II: Subject Listings


This page provides a list of subjects seen in Robert H. Helm's USS Powhatan photographic collection.

For introductory information on this album, see:

  • Robert H. Helm's USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) Photo Collection -- General Description.

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    SUBJECTS SEEN IN THIS ALBUM (nearly all taken in 1919):

    USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) (views of ship): Pages 1, 2; Pages 12-13; Page 32

    Views on board and close to USS Powhatan:

  • Ship's Propellers and Rudder -- Page 3
  • Crew Members -- Pages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Page 10; Page 39
  • Mascots (Dogs, Cat) -- Pages 4, 6, 7, 8
  • Storm at sea -- Page 22
  • Passengers (Troops and others) -- Pages 4, 8, 9; Page 13; Pages 20-21; Pages 39-40
  • Miscellaneous views -- Pages 13-17; Pages 21-23, 27, 29; Pages 31-33


    Other Ships and Craft:

  • USS Aeolus (ID # 3005): Page 12
  • USS Anniston (Cruiser # 9, ex-Montgomery): Page 28
  • USS Calamares (ID # 3662): Page 12
  • U.S. troop transport, probably USS Floridian (ID # 3875): Page 30
  • USS Hartford (Receiving Ship): Page 28; Page 30
  • USS Henley (Destroyer # 39): Page 27
  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326): Page 2

  • USS Machias (Gunboat # 5): Page 30
  • USS Martha Washington (ID # 3019): Page 2; Page 31
  • USS McCall (Destroyer # 28): Pages 25, 27; Page 33
  • USS Nashville (Gunboat # 7): Page 30
  • USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290): Page 29
  • Sebago (Harbor Tug # 23): Page 33
  • USS SC-200: Page 27
  • USS SC-206: Page 25

  • U.S. Navy "Pre-Dreadnought" battleship,
    underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia (distant view): Page 3
  • U.S. Navy battleship,
    either USS New York (Battleship # 34) or USS Texas (Battleship # 35): Page 24
  • U.S. Navy transport (one of the four former minelayers converted for this purpose): Page 31

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge Chinook: Page 24
  • French warship, probably protected cruiser d'Entrecasteaux: Page 34
  • Motor boat Lady Anne: Page 26
  • New York Ferry Steamer Prince: Page 2

  • Four-masted Bark: Page 25
  • Wooden Freighter (EFC Design type 1003): Page 24
  • Lightship: Page 24
  • Stern wheel harbor steamer: Page 25
  • Waterlogged Wreck (probably a sailing vessel) passed at sea, April 1919: Page 22

  • Lifeboats -- Page 23; Page 31


    Ship's Equipment, Boats and Weapons:

  • Belaying Pin rack -- Page 6
  • Six-inch Guns -- Page 23; Pages 32-33
  • Colt-Browning Machine Gun on tripod mounting -- Page 33
  • Paravane -- Page 21
  • Propellers and Rudders -- Page 3


    Individual People (members, or probably members, of USS Powhatan's crew):

  • Bryceland (Chief Petty Officer) -- Page 7
  • Burgess (Sailor) -- Page 6
  • Cook (Chief Petty Officer) -- Page 7
  • Robert H. Helm (Sailor) -- Page 6 (photograph);
    Pages 4-5 and Pages 35-36 (reverse sides feature his messages to family members);
    Page 41 (World War I Draft registration and notification cards)
  • Hough (Sailor) -- Page 6
  • A.S. Jenson (Sailor) -- Pages 6, 7, 8
  • Ketcham (Sailor) -- Page 6; Page 10
  • Eddie Kuch (or Ruch) (Soldier) -- Page 8
  • Leo Lucas (Sailor) -- Page 7

  • Maresca (Sailor) -- Page 6
  • S.W. Moury (Machinist's Mate 2nd Class) -- Page 8
  • George F. Muller (Sailor) -- Pages 6, 7; Page 10
  • Nyzynski (Sailor) -- Page 6
  • Eddie Ruch (or Kuch) (Soldier) -- Page 8
  • Sparkowski (Sailor) -- Pages 6, 7

  • Belgian Policeman -- Page 36
  • Belgian (?) War Brides -- Page 39


    Places:

  • New York Harbor (shipping) -- Page 2

  • Charleston, South Carolina , -- Pages 1, 5 (shipping, men on board ship);
    Pages 24-29 (shipping, harbor, Castle Pinckney, port scenes);
    Page 33 (Southern Railway Co. coal pier)
  • Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina
    -- Pages 28-29 and Pages 30-33 (ships, facilities, floating crane)

  • Hampton Roads, Virginia (battleship underway) -- Page 3
  • Newport News, Virginia -- Page 3 (ship in dry dock)
    Pages 10-11 (Officers and Men on board ship)


  • Antwerp, Belgium (Castle Steen, port facilities) -- Pages 38-40
  • Malines (Mechelen), Belgium (railroad station) -- Page 36
  • Brussels, Belgium (Royal Palace, Palace of Justice,
    Statue of Godfrey de Boullion, Manneken Pis fountain) -- Page 37

  • Brest, France (harbor, port, street scene) -- Page 34
  • Paris, France (Church of the Madeline, Champs Elysees,
    Place de la Concorde, Louvre Palace, Invalides) -- Pages 35-36
  • Pauillac, France (ship in port) -- Page 1
  • St. Nazaire, France -- Pages 2, 8 (ships in port, men on ship);
    Pages 11-19 (Sailors on liberty, shipping, shipboard scenes, port facilities, troops,
    breakwater, beach scene, circus, open air urinals, miscellaneous street scenes)

  • Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Meuse River and port facilities) -- Page 38


    Miscellaneous Subjects:

  • U.S. Army (120th Infantry, 30th Division) -- Page 26
  • U.S. Army Band -- Page 20
  • U.S. Navy Blacksmiths -- Page 10
  • Coal Pier conveyor equipment (at Charleston, S.C.) -- Page 33
  • World War I Draft registration and notification cards -- Page 41
  • Curtiss "HS" type Flying Boat (at Charleston, S.C.) -- Page 26
  • Victory Liberty Loan Poster -- Page 8
  • Commercially printed Post Cards -- Page 1; Pages 35-36
  • German Prisoners of War (at St. Nazaire, France) -- Page 19
  • Wrestling match on board ship -- Page 9


    Click on the linked page numbers to see small pictures ("thumbnails") of those pages.

    Click on the thumbnails to access larger images of the pages.


    For introductory information on this album, see:

  • Robert H. Helm's USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) Photo Collection -- General Description.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • If reproduced, images featured on these pages should be credited to the "U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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