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Photo #: NH 68321

USS Neptune
(Fuel Ship # 8, later AC-8)

Probably photographed after World War I.
Note the presence of armament and of topmasts for radio gear and the absence of the light funnel bands worn by the Navy's large colliers and some other auxiliary ships into 1917.

Courtesy Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 9 January 2008