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Photo # NH 45345:  Scene in troop spaces on board USS Mercury, circa 1918-1919

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Mercury (ID # 3012), 1917-1919 --
On Board (Interior) & Miscellaneous Views


This page features a very broad selection of the views we have of the interior of USS Mercury (ID # 3012), as well as distant images of her and photos taken from her.

For other pictures concerning USS Mercury, see:

  • USS Mercury (ID # 3012), 1917-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 98579

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Helmsman, Bugler and other sailors in the ship's pilothouse, circa 1919.

    Courtesy of Mrs. W.A. Nightengale, 1971.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46233

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Inspection in a troop berthing space, circa 1918-1919.
    Note folding pipe berths and Soldiers' "kit" laid out on the hatch cover. Rifle is a M1903 "Springfield". Boots have hobnails and heel plates.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45345

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Scene in troop spaces in a hold below the waterline, showing a card game in progress, with banjo accompaniment, circa 1918-1919.
    Note books at left, placed on board by the Red Cross and the American Library Association. Sign with the books indicates that the photo was taken as Mercury was transporting troops back to the U.S. from Europe after the World War I Armistice.

    Courtesy of E.E. Thompson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45346

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Troops reading books in one of the ship's berthing spaces, while en route to France, circa 1918-1919. The books were provided by the American Library Association. Note the copy of "Collier's" magazine on the deck at right, next to a battle helmet.

    Courtesy of E.E. Thompson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46231

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Scene in a troop messing space, circa 1918-1919.
    Note fancy moulding work overhead and mess kits hanging from pipes.
    Photographed by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William A. Nightingale.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46232

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


    Troops at mess, circa 1918-1919.
    Note mess tables suspended from the overhead to allow them to swing as the ship rolls.
    Photographed by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William A. Nightingale.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82951

    "The Original U.S. Troop Transports"


    Chart compiled 16 August 1919, showing the number of trans-Atlantic "turn arounds" and their average duration for thirty seven U.S. Navy troop transports employed during and immediately after World War I.

    Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 157KB; 690 x 655 pixels

    Click here to rotate chart 90 degrees clockwise

     
    Photo #: NH 103287-A-KN (color)

    USS Mercury (ID # 3012)

    Reverse of a postal card photograph of the ship, bearing a message from a serviceman that she may have transported from Europe to the U.S. It was mailed at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Virginia, on 7 July 1919.
    See Photo # NH 103287 for a view of the front of this card, showing a 1919 photograph of USS Mercury in port

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     


    USS Mercury is visible in the left background of the following photograph of another ship:

    Photo #: NH 93897

    USS Zeelandia
    (ID # 2507)

    At sea with a convoy of troopships, 25 October 1918.
    Photographed from USS Little (Destroyer # 79).
    The ship second from left, in the distance, is USS Mercury (ID # 3012).

    U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     


    The following photographs were taken from USS Mercury while she was at sea:

    Photo #: NH 91645

    USS Agamemnon
    (ID # 3004)

    Photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012), while underway at sea in 1918.

    Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 91644

    USS Ericsson (Destroyer # 56)


    Photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012), while escorting her in French waters, 1918.
    Note Ericsson's pattern camouflage.

    Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     

    Other Photographs, probably (or possibly) taken from USS Mercury:

  • Photo # NH 98572, a view of the minelayer Baltimore; and
  • Photo # NH 103743, a view of the destroyer Beale in 1918.
  • Photo # NH 103792, armored cruiser Huntington underway at sea, 1918.
  • Photo # NH 103793, USS Huntington underway at sea, 1918.


    For other pictures concerning USS Mercury, see:

  • USS Mercury (ID # 3012), 1917-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 27 June 2003
    New images added 17 September 2006