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NH 99385 S.S. Black Arrow

Photo #: NH 99385 S.S. Black Arrow
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Title: S.S. Black Arrow
Description: (American Freighter, 1904) In port, possibly when inspected by the Third Naval District on 20 March 1919. Built in 1904 as the Hamburg-America Line steamer Rhaetia, this ship was seized by the United States in April 1917. Renamed Black Hawk, and later Black Arrow, she served on U.S. Army account for the rest of World War I. Transferred to the Navy, she was placed in commission on 27 January 1919 as USS Black Arrow. The ship was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 9 August 1919. While in Navy service she apparently had registry ID # 3913, reflecting the March 1919 inspection. This was changed to ID # 1534 on 3 April 1922, indicating that she had been inspected in about mid-1917 and assigned the lower number, but that this had been overlooked when she was taken over by the Navy. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 99385
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