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Photo #: NH 103120

USAT Agwileon
(U.S. Army Transport)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa April-June 1943, while the ship was in service as a U.S. Army Transport. She became the Army Hospital Ship Shamrock in mid-1943.
Built in 1906 as the passenger liner Havana, in 1918-1924 this ship was USS Comfort.

Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 

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Image posted 15 September 2005