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Photo # NH 63108: USAT Mount Vernon off the Mare Island Navy Yard, January 1920

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USAT Mount Vernon (Transport, 1919)

The U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon was originally the 19,503 gross ton passenger liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie, built at Stettin, Germany, in 1906. Beginning in mid-1917 she operated as USS Mount Vernon and was transferred to the War Department upon decommissioning in September 1919. She remained in Army service into the early 1920s and was then returned to civilian custody and laid up. Mount Vernon was scrapped in 1940.

This page features all available views of the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.

For additional views of this ship, taken before and during her U.S. Navy service, see:

  • Kronprinzessin Cecilie (German Passenger Liner, 1906
  • USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508), 1917-1919.


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    Photo #: NH 63108

    U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon

    Maneuvering in the channel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, January 1920.
    This ship served as USS Mount Vernon in 1917-1919.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1932.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45745

    U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon

    At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 January 1920.
    She was USS Mount Vernon in 1917-1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45746

    U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon

    At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter tied up to her port side, circa January 1920.
    She was USS Mount Vernon in 1917-1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45744

    U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon

    Moored outboard of the Navy hospital ship Comfort, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 January 1920.
    Note the drydock in the foreground.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 71246

    U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon

    Moored outboard of the Navy hospital ship Comfort, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1920.

    Photograph from the William H. Topley Collection; courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     


    USAT Mount Vernon is seen in the background of the following photographs of other subjects:

    Photo #: NH 103192

    USS Tillman     (DD-135)

    At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa mid-1921.
    Photographed by H.J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
    The four-funneled ship in the right distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.
    The original print bears a hand-written note referring to a Commandant, Boston Navy Yard letter of 28 July 1921.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 1200 x 635 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103193

    Submarine Division 8    ,
    Commander Guy E. Davis commanding

    Nine of the Division's ten "O" type submarines at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 August 1921.
    Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston.
    Submarines in the front row are (from left to right): O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67), O-9 (SS-70) and O-1 (SS-62).
    Those in the second row are (from left to right): O-7 (SS-68), unidentified (either O-2 or O-8), O-5 (SS-66), O-10 (SS-71) and O-4 (SS-65).
    Large four-stacked ship in the left center distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 168KB; 1200 x 670 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44548

    USS O-10     (SS-71)
    and
    USS O-4 (SS-65)

    At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 28 September 1922.
    Note that O-4's 3"/23 gun is in the extended (operating) position, while that on O-10 is retracted.
    Four-funneled ship in the right distance is the former U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     

    For additional views of this ship, taken before and during her U.S. Navy service, see:

  • Kronprinzessin Cecilie (German Passenger Liner, 1906
  • USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508), 1917-1919.


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