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Photo #  NH 102263:  Harbor freighter Tinicum off Chester, Pa., prior to World War I


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Tinicum (American Harbor Freighter, 1905).
Served in the Navy in 1918-1919 as Tinicum (SP-1113)

Tinicum, a 481 gross ton harbor freighter, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1905. She was chartered by the Navy in late April 1918 and apparently employed in the Philadelphia area during the rest of World War I and for some months after the November 1918 Armistice. Tinicum was returned to her owner in March 1919.

This page features our only views of the harbor freighter Tinicum, which served in the Navy as Tinicum (SP-1113) in 1918-1919.


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Photo #: NH 102263

Tinicum
(American Harbor Freighter, 1905)

Photographed prior to World War I by J.E. Green, Chester, Pennsylvania.
This vessel was acquired by the Navy on 30 April 1918 and served for nearly a year as USS Tinicum (ID # 1113). She was returned to her owner on 26 March 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 42KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 65089-A

USS Santa Teresa
(ID # 3804)

Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 18 November 1918, the day she was commissioned.
Santa Teresa was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 7 October 1919 and became the mercantile Kent in 1936. During 1941-1946 she was USS Kent (AP-28) and the U.S. Army Transport (and Hospital Ship) Ernest Hinds.
The small ferry steamer Tinicum is at right. A destroyer in visible behind Santa Teresa.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 


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