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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53580

USS Houston
(1917-1922, later AK-1)

At Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, 2 July 1917, following conversion from the ex-German freighter Liebenfels.
The station ship Hartford is in the distance, beyond Houston's bow.
Note man with bicycle at left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 February 2003