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