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Photo # NH 98481:  USS Beaufort at Norfolk, Virginia, 7 May 1925

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USS Beaufort (ID # 3008, later AK-6), 1917-1926

USS Beaufort, a 1769 gross ton cargo ship, was built at Lubeck, Germany, in 1909 as the commercial collier Rheingraf. Later renamed Rudolf Blumberg, she took refuge in the United States when the First World War's outbreak in August 1914 made the high seas too dangerous for German merchant ships. When the U.S. entered the conflict in April 1917, she was seized at Pensacola, Florida. Turned over to the Navy and refitted at New Orleans, Louisiana, she placed in commission as USS Beaufort in September 1917. Later given the registry ID # 3008, she operated in European waters until March 1919 carrying coal across the English Channel. Upon her return to the U.S., the ship was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Train. She received the hull number AK-6 in mid-1920 and performed logistics functions along the East Coast and in the Caribbean until decommissioned in December 1925. USS Beaufort was sold in October 1926. Her new owners, a Norwegian commercial firm, nenamed her Fjorden. She was reportedly lost on 12 April 1933.

This page features our only views of USS Beaufort (ID # 3008, later AK-6).


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Photo #: NH 99318

USS Beaufort
(1917-1926, later ID # 3008 and AK-6)

In port, circa 1917-1918.
This rather poor quality image appears to be a double exposure.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98481

USS Beaufort (AK-6)


Tied up at Berth G, Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 May 1925.
Photographed by Naval Air Station Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 


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Page made 25 May 2003
New image added 10 May 2004