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Photo #: NH 101589

USS Dorchester
(ID # 1509)

With sails raised and a motor boat alongside, during World War I, probably in the Chesapeake Bay area.
This "bugeye" schooner was acquired by the Navy on 24 August 1917 and returned to her owner, the Conservation Commission of Maryland, on 26 November 1918.

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Image posted 21 January 2006