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Photo # NH 105863:  Attendees at the USS Princess Matoika ball, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, 31 May 1919

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290), 1918-1919.
Originally S.S. Kiautschou (German Passenger Liner, 1900). Later S.S. Princess Alice, S.S. Princess Matoika, S.S. President Arthur and S.S. City of Honolulu
-- On Board and Miscellaneous Views


This page features views taken on board USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290) and the passenger liner Kiautschou, Princess Alice, Princess Matoika, President Arthur and City of Honolulu, and miscellaneous views related to that ship.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290), 1918-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 105701

    USS Princess Matoika
    (ID # 2290)

    Ship's Officers and Crew posed in front of her forward superstructure, circa 1919.

    Note the wooden-board construction of the windshield above her pilothouse and bridge.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 177KB; 900 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103924

    USS Princess Matoika
    (ID # 2290)

    Ship's officers and crew posed on and in front of her bridge, circa 1918.
    The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 137KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52875

    USS Princess Matoika
    (ID # 2290)

    Lieutenant Commander Augustine H. Gray (center, with hands behind his back) conversing with a Navy Lieutenant and two U.S. Army officers, while the ship was at St. Nazaire, France, 20 December 1918.
    Note the six-inch gun behind them.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41892

    USS Princess Matoika
    (ID # 2290)

    A band of Bluejackets and Doughboys playing the "Marsellaise" on the ship's deck, as American troops, homeward bound from service in France, come aboard in the harbor of St. Nazaire, 20 December 1918.
    Note the capstan and bitts in the foreground.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105863

    USS Princess Matoika
    (ID # 2290)

    Attendees at the ship's First Annual Ball, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, 31 May 1919.
    Photographed by Drucker & Co., New York.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 137KB; 900 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41997

    British airship R-38
    (U.S. Navy ZR-2)

    Six U.S. Navy Petty Officers "sail to speed up work on the R-38. ... The R-38 is nearing completion in England and is to be flown to her hangar at Lakehurst, N.J." (quoted from the original caption). They are on board the passenger liner Princess Matoika (formerly USS Princess Matoika) for the trip to England.
    These men are identified in the original caption as:
    left to right, front: J.W. Cullinan, M. Lay and I.L. Thomas.
    left to right, standing: N. Julnis (sic. ?), A.B. Galation and H. Christensen.
    Chief Boatswain's Mate M. Lay and Chief Machinist's Mate W.A. Julius were among those who lost their lives when the R-38 crashed on 24 August 1921.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41998

    British airship R-38
    (U.S. Navy ZR-2)

    "To fly the R-38 here. Leaving on the Princess Matoika to bring home via the air the R-38 now being built over there for the United States.". (quoted from the original caption). They are on board the passenger liner Princess Matoika (formerly USS Princess Matoika) for the trip to England, where the airship was under construction.
    These men are identified in the original caption as:
    left to right, kneeling: S.H. Knight, F.M. Gorey and A.C. Carlson.
    left to right, standing: W.G. Steele, F.L. Stevens, W.A. Russell and R.N. Coons.
    Chief Machinist's Mates W.J. Steele and R.M. Coons were among those who lost their lives when the R-38 crashed on 24 August 1921.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105766-A-KN (color)

    Jewish Welfare Board Soldiers and Sailors Post Card

    Reverse of a card issued to U.S. servicemen during the World War I era.
    The original card was mailed at Hempstead, New York, on 7 August 1919, following the sender's arrival in the U.S. after a nine-day passage from Brest, France.
    For a reproduction of the front of this card, see Photo # NH 105766-KN. It features a view of S.S. Princess Matoika, which served as USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290) in 1918-1919

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image size: 87KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105971-A-KN (color)

    S.S. Princess Matoika (American Passenger Liner, originally the German S.S. Kiautschou, 1900)

    Reverse of a postcard mailed from Germany by the ship's Radio Operator, J.F. Maresca, to the Reverend Nicola Fusco of Hillsville, Pennsylvania, 6 July 1921.
    See Photo # NH 105971 for a view of the front of the original postcard, with a photograph of the ship taken at Bremerhaven, Germany, on 4 July 1921.
    This ship was USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290) in 1918-1919.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82951

    "The Original U.S. Troop Transports"


    Chart compiled 16 August 1919, showing the number of trans-Atlantic "turn arounds" and their average duration for thirty seven U.S. Navy troop transports employed during and immediately after World War I.

    Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association, 1974.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 157KB; 690 x 655 pixels

    Click here to rotate chart 90 degrees clockwise

     


    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290), 1918-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 23 January 2008
    New images added 1 December 2008