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Photo #: 19-N-7573

S.S. Saint Louis
(American Passenger Liner, 1895)

Photographed during the winter of 1917-1918, while operating as a troop transport. Note ice on the harbor surface.
Saint Louis had recently been repainted in pattern camouflage. She became USS Louisville (ID # 1644) in April 1918 and received another camouflage scheme in the early summer of that year.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Image posted 10 September 2005