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The Washington Herald., January 02, 1919, page 1, column 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1919-01-02/ed-... "The American transport Northern Pacific, with a cargo of human freight. 2.481 soldiers, many of them wounded, is sandbound in "ships' graveyard" off Fire Island, tonight, the plaything of the seas. Two lines have been placed aboard the ship and arrangements have been made to remove the passengers and crew in a breeches buoy should demand arise. Six destroyers and a transport of the United States Navy are standing by, to meet any emergency." The Seattle star., January 01, 1919, page 1, column 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1919-01-01/ed-... describes the situation more fully.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Northern_Pacific_(1914)

The sun., January 12, 1919, Section 3 Pictorial Magazine, Image 28 published a very similar photo chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-01-12/ed-... S. also photo and article "20 VESSELS RUSHED TO STRANDED SHIP" in The evening world., January 02, 1919, City Edition, Image 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1919-01-02/ed-... and The evening world., January 03, 1919, City Edition, Image 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1919-01-03/ed-... The caption of this photo is apparently mistaken, since the Great northern would be the sister ship: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Northern_(1914)

Thanks for pointing out the naming error of the ship. We will make a note in the catalog records.

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See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/31233909355/

looks like the good capt. grounded his ship on Fire Island in April, 1911: "The North German liner Prinzess Irene arrived safely at her pier in Hoboken at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, under her own steam, and looked none the worse for her eighty-three-hour rest on the Fire Island sandbars. Capt. F. von Letten-Peterssen, who was in command of the liner, said that, so far as he could tell, the only damage the vessel sustained was the breaking of the frame of the rudder post." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E1DE1031E233A...

Great portrait :) The light here is very nice and the sharpness is amazing compared to such an old photo :)

In 1911 when the ship was grounded. The ship was interred in 1914: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pocahontas_(ID-3044)

>This is most likely for when the ship was interred in 1914: I don't get that from the wikipedia link. It says Peterssen was captain of the ship when it grounded.

After being taken over by the U. S., she was renamed the Pocahontas.