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Catlin (AP-19): Photographs


These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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USS George Washington (ID # 3018)

Steaming twenty-five miles at sea, while transporting President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to France to take part in the Versailles Peace Conference, 5 March 1919. The ship is flying the Presidential flag from atop her second mast.

Photo No. NH 43045
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command


 
USS Catlin (AP-19)

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard just after her arrival there under tow on 13 March 1941.
She had been in reserve since 1931. After the U.S. Navy decided not to return her to service she was converted and reactivated for the British under Lend Lease.

Photo No. NH 105644
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command


 
USAT Catlin

Photographed circa 1943-1945 after her reconstruction for the Army.
After being reboilered and converted for oil fuel the ship had one smokestack instead of two.

Photo No. NH 85263
Source: Roland Charles, "Troopships of World War II"