Item #5504 USAT Edmund B. Alexander (ex-USS Amerika & USAT America). Crew Signed Army Transport Photo.
[Crew Signed Army Transport Photo]

USAT Edmund B. Alexander (ex-USS Amerika & USAT America)

n.p. n.p., c. 1949. Matted Photograph. Black & white photograph 9.5 x 8 inches in 12.5 x 10.5 paperboard mat. Ink signatures of crew members on the photo and mat. Mat soiled and stained, edges rubbed. Photo lightly scuffed. Good. Item #5504

USS Amerika was launched as a two-funnel coal-burning passenger liner for the Hamburg America Line in 1905, was seized for the US Navy as a troop transport in 1917, was handed over to the US Army in 1920 as USAT America, reactivated in 1940 as the Edmund B. Alexander, refitted as a fuel-oil burner with a single funnel in 1942, placed in reserve at Hawkins Point, Maryland in 1949, and sold for scrap in 1957. Though undated, we presume the signatures are of the ship's final crew.

Price: $125.00