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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804), 1918-1919.
Served as USS Kent (AP-28), 1941-1942,
and as the U.S. Army Transport and U.S. Army Hospital Ship Ernest
Hinds
USS Santa Teresa, an 8890-ton transport,
was built in 1918 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the civilian
passenger liner of the same name. Taken over by the Navy for World
War I use, she was commissioned in mid-November 1918, a week after
the Armistice ended the fighting. Between December 1918 and September
1919 Santa Teresa made seven round-trip voyages between
the United States and France, primarily bringing home war veterans.
The ship was decommissioned in October 1919 and turned over to
the U.S. Shipping Board for return to her owners. During the next
two decades she operated commercially as SS Santa Teresa
and, after 1936, as SS Kent.
SS Kent was purchased by the U.S. Army in April 1941
and renamed Ernest Hinds. Converted to a troopship, she
had brief Army service before being transferred to the Navy in
July 1941. Renamed USS Kent (AP-28), she carried passengers
and cargo along the U.S. East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico
area until March 1942, when she was returned to the Army. Her
subsequent history is covered under Ernest
Hinds (U.S. Army Transport and Hospital Ship, 1941, 1942-1946.
This page features, and provides links to, all the views
we have concerning USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804) and of
USS Kent (AP-28).
For additional images related to this ship during her World
War I era service, see:
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
-- On Board and Close Up Views.
For images of this ship while she was in U.S. Army service,
see:
Ernest
Hinds (U.S. Army Transport and Hospital Ship, 1941, 1942-1946).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 65089-A
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on 18 November 1918, the day she was commissioned.
Santa Teresa was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on
7 October 1919 and became the mercantile Kent in 1936.
During 1941-1946 she was USS Kent (AP-28) and the U.S.
Army Transport (and Hospital Ship) Ernest Hinds.
The small ferry steamer Tinicum is at right. A destroyer
in visible behind Santa Teresa.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103080
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
At anchor in 1919. She appears to be in the process of repainting.
The original image is printed on postal card ("AZO")
stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 465 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102943
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
In a U.S. East Coast port, 1919.
The original photograph is printed on postal card ("AZO")
stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 465 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105864
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
Underway, probably in New York Harbor, while bringing troops
home from Europe in 1919.
Photographed by J.W. Allison, New York.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 137KB; 900 x 525 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105865
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
Arriving at New York on 4 September 1919, bringing home troops
of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division.
Panoramic photograph, taken by Head-Mayberry, 488 7th Avenue,
New York.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 217KB; 2000 x 495
pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103081
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
In port, 1919.
Photographed by The Louvre Photo Studios, Seymour Building, 503
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
The original image is printed on postal card stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 465 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 90568
USS Kent (AP-28)
Underway, circa 1941-1942.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1980.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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For additional images related to this ship during her World
War I era service, see:
USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)
-- On Board and Close Up Views.
For images of this ship while she was in U.S. Army service,
see:
Ernest
Hinds (U.S. Army Transport and Hospital Ship, 1941, 1942-1946).
NOTES:
To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here
are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded
and used for any purpose.
Some images linked from this page bear obsolete credit lines
citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center".
Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval
History and Heritage Command".
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Page made 31 August 2003
New images added 8 January 2009