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Photo #: NH 103470-KN (color) USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) "Souvenir Folder", published circa 1918-1919 by A.M. Simon, 324 E. 23rd St., New York City, featuring ten halftone reproductions of photographs of and on board the ship. The individual photographs have Photo #s NH 103460, NH 103461, NH 103462, NH 103463, NH 103464, NH 103465, NH 103466, NH 103467, NH 103468, and NH 103469. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 71KB; 460 x 765 pixels

Related Image: We have another "Souvenir Folder" for USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), identical to that seen above except that its cover is ORANGE-TAN (instead of GREEN-GRAY) and its ship photograph is different. The ship photo in the second photo has Photo # NH 103952, but does not show Powhatan, but rather a freighter of very different appearance.

Photo #: NH 106333-A USS Powhatan (ID # 3013) Post card published in 1919 and mailed in that year by Robert H. Helm, a member of her crew. The front side of this post card, featuring a halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship underway, is seen in Photo # NH 106333. Photograph from the collection of Robert H. Helm, donated by Mr. & Mrs. Robert Helm, 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 480 pixels

Photo #: NH 82951 "The Original U.S. Troop Transports" Chart compiled 16 August 1919, showing the number of trans-Atlantic "turn arounds" and their average duration for thirty seven U.S. Navy troop transports employed during and immediately after World War I. Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association, 1974. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 157KB; 690 x 655 pixels Click here to rotate chart 90 degrees clockwise

The photographs listed below were taken from on board USS Powhatan, or may have been taken from her:

Photo # NH 106349: USS Princess Matoika (ID # 2290) leaving Charleston, S.C. for Rotterdam, Holland on 30 June 1919, carrying Germans who had been interned in the United States during World War I. Photographed from USS Powhatan, which had just arrived following a voyage from France.

Photo # NH 106346: USS Aeolus (ID # 3005) at St. Nazaire, France, 1919.

Photo # NH 106347: USS Calamares (ID # 3662) leaving St. Nazaire, France in 1919, transporting homeward bound men of the 18th Division.

Photo # NH 106336: USS Martha Washington (ID # 3019) underway in 1919.

The following photograph was included with a collection of views once owned by a crew member of USS Powhatan, and may show Soldiers who embarked on her for passage to the United States:

Photo # NH 106348: U.S. Army Soldiers marching through St. Nazaire, France, en route to embark on a transport for passage home, 1919.

For more images concerning this ship, see:

USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919.

NOTES:

To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

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