Picked up this picture at yard sale. 1919 e muller jr. New York Harbor. I got it for $8
U.S.S. president Grant picture Muller Jr.
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Here's her history:
S.S. President Grant, a 18,072 gross ton passenger liner, was built in 1907 at Belfast, Ireland, for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. She shared a distinctive split-superstructure and six-mast configuration with her sister ship, the President Lincoln. After seven years of commercial operation, she took refuge at New York when the August 1914 outbreak of World War I made the high seas unsafe for German merchant ships, and remained inactive until the United States entered the conflict in April 1917. Seized at that time by the U.S. Government, she was turned over to the Navy and, in early August 1917, placed in commission as the transport President Grant (later given registry ID # 3014). During the rest of the First World War, she made eight round-trips across the Atlantic, transporting nearly 40,000 passengers (mainly U.S. troops) to the European war zone. Following the 11 November 1918 Armistice, President Grant brought home over 37,000 war veterans and other persons in the course of another eight round-trip voyages. She was decommissioned in October 1919 and transferred to the U.S. Army.
In 1920-1921 the ship served briefly as an Army transport, and in 1921 was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board and laid up. She was renamed President Buchanan in 1922 or 1923, then renamedRepublic and rebuilt with an enlarged superstructure and oil-fired boilers. During the later 1920s and early 1930s the United States Lines operated her commercially. Republic resumed Army service in 1931, served as USS Republic (AP-33) in 1941-1945 and was again an Army ship in 1945-1946.
Don.......
S.S. President Grant, a 18,072 gross ton passenger liner, was built in 1907 at Belfast, Ireland, for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. She shared a distinctive split-superstructure and six-mast configuration with her sister ship, the President Lincoln. After seven years of commercial operation, she took refuge at New York when the August 1914 outbreak of World War I made the high seas unsafe for German merchant ships, and remained inactive until the United States entered the conflict in April 1917. Seized at that time by the U.S. Government, she was turned over to the Navy and, in early August 1917, placed in commission as the transport President Grant (later given registry ID # 3014). During the rest of the First World War, she made eight round-trips across the Atlantic, transporting nearly 40,000 passengers (mainly U.S. troops) to the European war zone. Following the 11 November 1918 Armistice, President Grant brought home over 37,000 war veterans and other persons in the course of another eight round-trip voyages. She was decommissioned in October 1919 and transferred to the U.S. Army.
In 1920-1921 the ship served briefly as an Army transport, and in 1921 was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board and laid up. She was renamed President Buchanan in 1922 or 1923, then renamedRepublic and rebuilt with an enlarged superstructure and oil-fired boilers. During the later 1920s and early 1930s the United States Lines operated her commercially. Republic resumed Army service in 1931, served as USS Republic (AP-33) in 1941-1945 and was again an Army ship in 1945-1946.
Don.......
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That's a nice photo. Even with the damage it's collectible. E. Muller jr. and his father were the premier U.S. Naval photographers of the Spanish American/ WW1 era. Here is some info- http://www.eeldersite.com/naval/EMuller.htm
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very cool!
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