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Pier A headhouse on River Street, Hoboken NJ - compare this LOC HABS/HAER photo of it in its final days www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/nj1014.photos.112...

Probably this occasion on November 13, 1919: "NATION HONORS MEN KILLED IN RUSSIA; Funeral Services Held in Hoboken for 103 Soldiers Slain Fighting Bolsheviki. WADSWORTH PRAISES DEAD Coffins Draped In American Flag and Covered by Wreaths of Flowers." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E3DB1F3BEE... The article describes the bodies being brought from Archangelsk, Russia aboard the army transport Lake Daraga to Pier 4 in Hoboken, NJ, a funeral ceremony on the pier, then a procession to a mortuary where the bodies could be claimed by families.

See also chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1919-11-13/ed-... The New York evening world account., with photos. The article identifies the five men standing under the gate in this photo, military chaplains, by name.

Described in Motor Boating magazine for May, 1917 as a 43 x 9 foot Seabury Scout turned over to the NYPD by A.D. Brixby of New York. books.google.com/books?id=ZOt1f29Ct9oC&pg=PA15&lp...

in this picture and the other of the same boat, the gentleman seems to be very intently aiming a machine gun that has no ammo belt hooked up to it.

Another photo of Bluecoat in action, from the May, 1917 issue of The Rudder, with the caption: "Police Harbor Patrol Boat Bluecoat Built by the Gas Engine and Power Company 55 Ft Long 9 Ft Breadth Power 125 HP Speedway Speed 19 Miles " books.google.com/books?id=mS0jAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP12&lp...

A newspaper photo from April 11, 1917, with the caption "'Bluecoat, 'New Police Patrol Boat, Showing RapidFire Gun onDeck" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1917-04-11/ed-...