1919-21 Adriatic Sea Venice Italy US Navy Real Photo Postcards 55 RPPC

55 Real Photo Postcards and 2 special printed Venezia accordian cards

This lot consists of:

17 US format real photo postcards , including 2 sailors , one  Dated December 25, 1920, 1 USS Florida ship,  and 14 Generic Ocean sea, ship shots 
The balance of cards are allmforeign format postcard backs 1 Venice, including  Redentore 1920  fireworks Venice and Priests at  building ceremony  
4 other Italy  including 2 Chiesa
2 printed Venice fold out cards- they are the same
Three baseball views (one has lower border trimmed) pine trees in the background oft he game in progress, single shot player on board ship
Five sailor views
14 views showing ships of the fleet  in Venice and a couple in the canals

This Naval grouping is all in the Adriatic Sea, a campaign 1919-through 1921
This grouping is of a navy sailor on board either the DD126, DD206 DD209, DD207, or one of the other ships  in the Adriatic Sea campaign 1919-through 1921 also USS Olympia is in this group and the large ship with  flags is a Tennessee Class cruiser(classified as a cruiser in 1920) but was perhaps a different classification pre 1920.   The Tennessee class ship card is  ship filling the whole card view, by itself. 


DD207 Southard  In early fall of 1919,  headed for New York City to join six other destroyers in escorting the British battlecruiser Renown out to sea,  as that warship departed carrying Edward the Prince of Wales after his visit to the United States On November 19, 1919, Southard departed Newport Rhode Island for duty with U.S. naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean for about a year, she operated in the Adriatic Sea. She then departed the Dalmation coast  , transited the Suez Canal , and, after calling at ports in Egypt, Arabia, India, and China , put in at Cavite  in the Philippines  on 16 February 1921. Southard underwent repairs at Cavite Navy Yard until  21 March 1921, when she resumed operations. On 27 August 1922, she departed for the United States, and she arrived in San Francisco , on 2 October 1921. From there, she moved on to San Diego , California, where she was decommissioned on 7 February 1922.
DD209 Long sailed late in the year for the Mediterranean (1919). Assigned to Destroyer Division 26, she patrolled the Adriatic  and Mediterranean and served as station ship before steaming to the Philippines early in 1921 for duty with Asiatic station . Based at Cavite, Luzon , she patrolled the South China Sea  until July 1922 when she was ordered to the United States Long decommissioned at San Diego, California, 30 December 1922 USS Olympia also in this group
  


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