RED CROSS (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
RED CROSS
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17118
Call Number: LC-B2- 3216-4
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trialsanderrors (17 months ago | reply)
USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919.
Originally S.S. Hamburg (German Passenger Liner, 1899).
Later named Red Cross, Hudson and President Fillmore
USS Powhatan, a 18,026-ton troop transport, was originally the German passenger steamer Hamburg, which had been built in 1899 at Stettin, Germany. Caught at New York when World War I began in August 1914, she was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September and called at Falmouth, England; Paulliac, France; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before recrossing the Atlantic in October with American refugees on board. She remained at New York for the next two and a half years.
Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Powhatan_(ID-3013)
On the "Red Cross":
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Ryan (LOC P&P) (16 months ago | reply)
Thanks trialsanderrors for providing the link to more information about this ship. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.
artolog (13 months ago | reply)
Edited Wikipedia entry to reflect service as SS Red Cross.
Photo Nut 2011 added this photo to his favorites. (9 months ago)