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NH 102225 Snark

Photo #: NH 102225 Snark
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Title: Snark
Description: (American Motor Boat, 1917) Underway after World War I, while employed as a pleasure craft. Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York. Privately built by Herreshoff at Bristol, Rhode Island, for possible Navy use as a patrol boat, she was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 29 March 1919. Note that she wears her wartime SP number, commemorating her Naval service, and has been refitted with an enlarged pilot house. The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 102225
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