2-620-445 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

SS Cuba, Key West, Florida, c1925. SS Cuba was a steamship owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Originally launched in 1897 as the German SS Coblenz, she was seized by the United States in 1917, and named SS Sachem, until Pacific Mail purchased her from the Shipping Board on 6 February 1920 for US$400,000 and renamed SS Cuba. [Frank Johnson, Key West, Fla]