DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 100562
USS DeKalb (ID # 3010)
In port, circa 1917-1919, with U.S. battleships in the background.
Built as the German passenger liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich
in 1904, she was seized when the U.S. entered World War I. She
was renamed DeKalb and placed in commission on 12 May
1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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