ussmountvernon

Love these panoramas. Great stuff.

Josephus Daniels was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson as well as a newsaper publisher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_Daniels The U.S.S. Mount Vernon (ID #4508) was originally a German Trans-Atlantic passenger liner named Kronzprinzessen Cecilie. www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/id4508.htm

cool

Dazzle Painting! Cool! Neat camo attempt to thwart U-boats, hard to gauge direction and speed due to lack of uniformity in paint....

See a photo of a portion of Kronprinzessin Cecilie here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3775431480/in/p...

As is named on the lifeboat behind Mr. Gould, this is the German Liner S.S. Kronprinzessin Cecilie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kronprinzessin_Cecilie Later to become USS Mount Vernon: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3006358188/

Could be this fellow, sure looks like him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould_II Frank (identified above) is his uncle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jay_Gould

Thanks for spotting the second generation Gould and the boat name. We updated our source description today, aiming to reload the record by October for Flickr. Sorry we got so behind.

Son of George Jay Gould I; grandson of the 19th-century Wall Street robber baron (and Titan of the Great Northern Railroad), Jay Gould. See Harry Angstrom's note, below, and the Wikipedia entry it references.

I didn't think he looked like a Georgie.

Oops! Sorry for the mix up. This is one of five captions and images that got out of alignment back when the negatives were first scanned. Now fixed!

Might be Frank's nephew, Jay2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould_II

Harry Angstrom: It does look like this is Jay Gould II. We will update the record with this more full name. Thanks for the heads up!