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The mail steamer SS Breslau of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, Bremen as shown on a contemporary post card. This ship carried up to 1,600 immigrants per voyage westbound to America and large cargoes of wheat and cotton back to Germany.
Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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SS Breslau under way, date and location unknown. |
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Undated post card image of SS Breslau showing image of Capt. M. Prager and Breslau under way. |
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Undated post card image of SS Breslau at anchor. |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009)
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) at New York City, 1 October 1917.
Previously the German merchant steamer Breslau, she was seized at New Orleans when the United States entered World War I. Renamed Bridgeport on 9 June 1917, after being turned over to the Navy, she was placed in commission on 25 August 1917.
US Navy photo # NH 56577 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) at Brest, France, circa 1918. USS Wainwright (Destroyer # 62) is tied up to her port side, and an unusual turret steamer is alongside to starboard. The Captain's gig of the French Naval School is under sail in the foreground.
Photographed by Robert W. Neeser.
US Navy photo # NH 42569 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) with two destroyers tied up to starboard. This photo was taken from the fantail of USS Rambler (SP-211) showing Rambler's after 3"/50 gun and depth charges on racks and a "Y-gun" thrower, Brest, France, 1918.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1970.
US Navy photo # NH 73255 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) probably shown at Brest, France, in late 1918-1920.
A US Navy photo, courtesy Shipscribe.com and Seward Weymouth, as seen in Jane’s, All the World’s Fighting Ships; 1924. |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) in port circa 1918-1919. The original image is printed on post card "AZO" stock.
US Navy photo # NH 106390 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008 |
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Ships dressed with flags in Brest harbor, awaiting the arrival
of President Woodrow Wilson, in December 1918 or March 1919. Ships present include USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) at left, USS Prometheus (Repair Ship #2) is in the center, with tugs alongside. Two US Navy destroyers, another tug, and the Italian cruiser Libia are in the center and right distance. In the right-center foreground are two "Menhaden Fisherman" minesweepers, one wearing the numeral "5". Tugs may include USS Osceola and two units of the Allegheny class.
US Navy photo # NH 42571 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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USS Bridgeport (ID #3009) mess cook inspection, circa 1920s |
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10)
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10) at anchor in 1920, location.
Photo by Seward, Weymouth from "Jane's All the Worlds Fighting Ships, 1924" |
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10) off New York City, May 1921, just before going to Boston Navy Yard for an overhaul and two months before being designated as a destroyer tender (AD-10). Note that the after part of the open area under the amidships superstructure has been plated in, probably for additional repair facilities.
US Navy photo # NH 90100 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com |
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10) moored pierside at Charleston Navy Yard in 1923.
Boston Public Library, courtesy Leslie Jones Collection. |
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USS Mohave (AT-15) at Boston Navy Yard, circa 1924. USS Bridgeport (AD-10) and USS Constitution (IX-21) are in the background.
US Navy photo # NH 45949 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10), in reserve, and decommissioned USS Utah (BB-31) in dry dock at Boston Navy Yard, circa 1925-1928. Utah is undergoing a two year modernization which includes new oil burners for her boilers, installation of fighting masts and rearrangement of her guns so that they can be elevated without violating the provisions of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. Bridgeport will be used to house the Utah's crew during the overhaul. |
Courtesy Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection. |
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USS Bridgeport (AD-10) in use at Norfolk Navy Yard circa early 1932 as a barracks ship for the crew of the battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) while that ship was being modernized. In the foreground are the smokestack and the top of a lattice mast that have just been removed from Idaho by the floating crane (probably YD-26).
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # unknown (Houser Collection), courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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Maumee (AO-2) and Bridgeport (AD-10) in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 4 January 1941. In the foreground AVC-1 is having her catapult installed.
US National Archives Photo from RG-19-LCM. |
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Yacht Nancy D at Philadelphia Navy Yard before conversion for naval service as the Patrol Yacht YP-219, 15 January 1942.
Bridgeport (AD-10), in reserve, is in the background.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-28571 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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YP-220 crew loading stores while moored in the
back basin at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 6 May 1942. Note Bridgeport (AD-10)
in reserve, in the background.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-30926 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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 USAHS Larkspur
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A well distributed ad showing USAHS Larkspur (ex-USS Bridgeport, ex-German SS Breslau) that appeared in many marine publications of the day, promoting Merrill Stevens ship repair facilities.
Photo from "Hospital Ships of World war II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman, authors collection. |
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USAHS Larkspur a halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Originally the German commercial steamer Breslau, this ship served as USS Bridgeport during and after World War I. Copied from "Troopships of World War II", by Roland
W. Charles, page 342.
US Navy photo # NH 98475 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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USAHS Larkspur arrives at Charleston S.C. Port of Embarkation, date unknown.
US Army Signal Corps. photo. |
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USAHS Larkspur tied up alongside USS Europa (AP-177) in Bremerhaven before Europa departed on her first repatriation voyage in 1945.
US Navy photo from "Great Liners At War" by Stephen Harding. |
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USAT Bridgeport
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USAT Bridgeport halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1946, after the ship had been converted from the Army Hospital Ship Larkspur. Originally the German commercial steamer Breslau, this ship served as USS Bridgeport during and after World War I.
Copied from "Troopships of World War II", by Roland
W. Charles, page 11.
US Navy photo # NH 98474 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USAT Bridgeport in port, circa 1946
US Navy photo # NH 98482 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command |
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