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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 89763

USS Vitesse
(SP-1192)

Probably taken at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, while being fitted for Navy use, circa August 1917.
Note the unfinished "S.P." number on her bow, absence of guns on board, and "Menhaden Fisherman" type trawlers in the background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 February 2004