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NH 65089-A USS Santa Teresa

Photo #: NH 65089-A USS Santa Teresa
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Title: USS Santa Teresa
Description: (ID # 3804) Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 18 November 1918, the day she was commissioned. Santa Teresa was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 7 October 1919 and became the mercantile Kent in 1936. During 1941-1946 she was USS Kent (AP-28) and the U.S. Army Transport (and Hospital Ship) Ernest Hinds. The small ferry steamer Tinicum is at right. A destroyer in visible behind Santa Teresa. The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 65089-A
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