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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 41711

S.S. Philadelphia
(American Passenger Liner, 1889)

Navy Armed Guard gun crew exercising with a 4"/40 gun mounted on board the ship, June 1917.
The stern of another armed merchantman is in the background.
Philadelphia served as USS Harrisburg (ID # 1663) in 1918-1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 8 November 2005