Item/Description: Original black and white panoramic photograph by the George Photo Company, Boston. Features The USS America (a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War I), docked at The Charlestown Navy Yard (now The Boston Navy Yard)
USS America, a 21,085-ton transport, was built at Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the German passenger liner Amerika. Completed in October 1905, she spent the next nine years on the Hamburg-America Line's service between Germany and the United States. She was caught at the western end of the route when World War I began in August 1914 and was laid up at Boston, Massachusetts, from then until the U.S. entered the conflict in April 1917. Seized at that time by American authorities, Amerika was turned over to the Navy for conversion to a troop transport. In August 1917, while this work was underway at the Boston Navy Yard, she was commissioned as USS Amerika, a name soon changed to America.

Material: Photograph

Dimensions: Image size: Height: 7"; Width: 30 1/2". Framed: Height: 10"; Width: 33 1/2"

Condition: Some creasing, discoloration, wear.

Age: 1917

Provenance: Private estate

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