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U.S.S. Tarazed – Vintage Print

U.S.S. Tarazed, 1942 May 19. — historic photograph
U.S.S. Tarazed, 1942 May 19.. Historic photograph from the Battleships collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Unlike the other warships on this board, the U.S.S. Tarazed was a refrigerated cargo ship. It was built as a commercial vessel for the Unifruitco fleet, the shipping arm of United Fruit Company, and was taken into the Navy's service in the early 1940s. This May 1942 print, one of a numbered set, shows the ship in the wartime camouflage the Navy applied to its vessels to make them harder for enemy submarines and aircraft to identify and track at sea. Such irregular patterns of paint, often in grays and blues, were tested throughout the war, and this view records one stage in that effort.

Created / published1942 May 19.
Medium1 photographic print.
Genrep. 10."
Notes2091-42 NYBOS". No. 4671F. Published in: Unifruitco
SubjectsShips--United States--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,279 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181904

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