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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102566

S.S. William A. McKenney
(American Freighter, 1916)

Photographed by E.P. Griffith, of Newport News, Virginia, probably when she was first completed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in 1916.
This steamship was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 5 June 1918 as USS William A. McKenney (ID # 2102). She was decommissioned on 31 January 1919 and turned over the the U.S. Shipping Board for return to her owners.

The original photograph is in Record Group 19-LCM in the National Archives.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 September 2004